E CONOMIC H ISTORY S OCIETY A NNUAL C ONFERENCE
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28 – 30 M ARCH 2014
P ROVISIONAL C ONFERENCE P ROGRAMME
F RIDAY 28 M ARCH 2014
0915-1045 Meeting of Economic History Society Publications Committee
1045-1345
1200-1700
1400-1530
Meeting of Economic History Society Council
Registration
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(Ramphal Foyer)
ESEARCHERS ’ S ESSION
IA: W OMEN AND W ORK (chair: tba)
I (8 parallel sessions)
Do the Victorian censuses of England and Wales offer an accurate representation of married women’s occupations in provincial towns and cities: 1851-1901?
Amanda Wilkinson (University of Essex)
Women’s work in the 1881 Census Enumerators’ Books (CEBs)
Xuesheng You (University of Cambridge)
Using cemetery records as a source to estimate women’s class and occupational identities: the case of Coimbra,
Portugal, 1885-1910
Mafalda Moura Pereira (University of Cambridge)
IB: T WENTIETH -C ENTURY B RITISH I NDUSTRY (chair: tba)
The Great Escape: technological lock-in vs appropriate technology in early twentieth century British manufacturing
Pieter Woltjer (Wageningen University)
Openness and British productivity performance during the Golden Age of economic growth
Nikita Bos (University of Groningen)
Harnessing the ‘white heat’: re-examining the expansion of Britain’s civil nuclear energy programme, 1965-70
Tae Hoon Kim (University of Cambridge)
IC: A PPRENTICESHIP AND Y OUTH (chair: tba)
From orphan to artisan: the apprenticing of orphaned boys in Leiden and Utrecht during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries
Ruben Schalk (Utrecht University)
Shipped out? Pauper apprentices of port towns during the industrial revolution, 1750-1870
Caroline Withall (University of Oxford)
Youth voluntary organisations in south London and Liverpool, 1958-c.1985
Charlotte Clements (University of Kent)
ID: F AMINE AND M IGRATION (chair: tba)
Laissez-faire, the Irish Famine, and British financial crisis c.1846-50
Charles Read (University of Cambridge)
The famine of Finland in 1867-68 and the political economy of the Finnish senate
Lari Rantanen (University of Turku)
Migrants’ self-selection in the early stages of economic growth: Spain, 1880-1930
Francisco Beltran (University of Oxford)
IE: R EGIONAL I NDUSTRY AND I NSTITUTIONS (chair: tba)
J.H. Clapham revisited: an occupational study of the transference of the worsted industry from Norfolk to the
West Riding
Keith Sugden (University of Cambridge)
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Becoming owners or not: the reasons for a regional divergence seen from below: Catalonia, 1750-1850
Albert Serramontmany (Universitat de Girona)
How do we approach the Zollverein? Local institutions and the early customs union
James Boyd (Cardiff University)
IF: E DUCATION AND E CONOMIC D EVELOPMENT (chair: tba)
Modern secondary education and economic outcomes: the introduction of the Gewerbeschule and Realschule in nineteenth-century Bavaria
Alexandra Semrad (University of Munich)
Historical education production functions: school resources, school structures, and the increase in income in
Prussia at the end of the nineteenth century
Ruth Maria Schueler (ifo Institute)
Human capital development in the Middle East: is secularism a solution? Evidence from Turkey in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Rima Ghanem (Tuebingen University)
IG: L ABOUR AND W AGES (chair: tba)
Winning ugly? The impact of wage inequality on labour productivity
Svenja Gärtner (University of Gothenberg)
Labour recruitment and practices in Japan’s Far North: The Takobeya of colonial Karafut fact or fiction?
Steven Ivings (London School of Economics)
An alternative political economy: the international ambitions of the Knights of Labor in wider perspective
Steven Parfitt (University of Nottingham)
IH: M EDIEVAL E CONOMY AND S OCIETY (chair: tba)
Technology shocks, relative productivity, and son preference: the long-term impact of historical textile production
Meng Xue (George Mason University)
Disorder and rebellion in Cambridgeshire in 1381
Mingjie Xu (University of Cambridge)
Finance and trade under Henry VI of England, 1422-61
Alex Brayson (University of York)
1530-1600 Tea (Ramphal Foyer)
1600-1730 N EW R ESEARCHERS ’ S ESSION II (8 parallel sessions)
IIA: E ARLY M ODERN C RAFTS , W AGES AND C ONTRACTS (chair: tba)
Gilboy revisited
Judy Stephenson (London School of Economics)
Crafting the first modern economy? Craft guilds as engines of human capital formation: Holland, 1300-1800
Miguel Laborda-Pemán (Utrecht University)
The competitive edge of the reliable Friends? Contract enforcement among London Quakers, c.1660-1800
Esther Sahle (London School of Economics)
IIB: R AILWAYS AND E CONOMIC G ROWTH (chair: tba)
The impact of access to railroads on economic growth in the Ottoman Empire, 1893-1914
Avni Onder Hanedar (Dokuz Eylal University)
Railroads and the regional concentration of industry in Germany, 1846-82
Theresa Gutberlet (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute)
The press and the regulation of investment quality in the railway mania of 1845: the case of the railway press
Gabriel Geisler Mesevage (Graduate Institute Geneva)
IIC: B USINESS P RACTICES (chair: tba)
Knowledge and the English East India Company’s Bengal silk enterprise, 1757-1812
Karolina Hutkova (University of Warwick)
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The principal-agent problem revisited: supercargoes and commanders of the China trade
Meike Fellinger (University of Warwick)
Avoiding ‘negligence and profusion’: what factors determined the choice of ownership form employed by British trading firms in nineteenth-century India?
Michael Aldous (London School of Economics)
IID: F ISCAL P OLICY , F INANCE AND I NVESTMENT (chair: tba)
Fiscal sustainability and the value of money: Lessons from the British paper pound, 1797-1821
Pamfili Antipa (Banque de France)
The Lyon Stock Exchange: the struggle for survival, 1866-1914
Jérémy Ducros (Paris School of Economics)
Is art really a safe-haven investment? Evidence from the British and the French art markets, 1900-60
Géraldine David (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
IIE: T WENTIETH -C ENTURY G ERMANY (chair: tba)
Household consumption in pre-war Nazi Germany: the effect of credit constraints, uncertainty, and myopia
Robin Winkler (University of Oxford)
Women voters and party preference in Weimar Germany
Alan de Bromhead (University of Oxford)
No longer top of the class: professorial salaries in twentieth-century Germany
Alexander Sohn (Bielefeld University)
IIF: S TATE , C OMMUNITY AND E CONOMY (chair: tba)
Pecunia non olet: Catholic merchants, a reluctant welcome
Giada Pizzoni (University of St Andrews)
The rural community through the eyes of the land-agent on the Marquis of Anglesey’s Dorset and Somerset estate 1812-54
Carol Beardmore (University of Leicester)
The evolution of legal capacity in the Grand-Duchy of Baden in the Mirror of Court records, 1829-77
Felix Selgert (University of Vienna)
IIG: M ODERN I NDUSTRIAL G ROWTH (chair: tba)
What drove economic growth in the nineteenth century? The case of Switzerland, 1885-1913
Léo Charles (Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV)
Can output growth be measured in the absence of production data? A state space time series analysis of industrial growth in pre-WWII Germany
Joost Veenstra (University of Groningen)
World War II and the industrialisation of the American South
Taylor Jaworski (University of Arizona)
IIH: C LIMATE AND THE E CONOMY (chair: tba)
The long term effects of climate change on economic growth: evidence from the Little Ice Age, 1500-1750
Maria Waldinger (London School of Economics)
Falling, rising, growing: climate effects on stature since the last seven millennia
Gregori Galofré-Vilà (University of Southampton)
1730-1830 Open meeting for women in economic history
1815-1900 Council reception for new researchers and first-time delegates
1900-2015
2030-2130
Dinner (Panorama Suite)
Plenary Lecture:
Title: tba
(Ramphal Lecture Theatre)
Professor Mark Harrison
(University of Warwick)
2135-2145 Meeting of New Researcher Prize Committee
Late bar available (Panorama Suite)
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S ATURDAY 29 M ARCH 2014
0800-0900 Breakfast ( Rootes Restaurant )
0900-1045 A CADEMIC S ESSION
IA: J APAN (chair: tba)
I (8 parallel sessions)
Industrial development and technology adoption in late nineteenth-century Japan
John Tang (Australian National University)
When did Japan overtake India? Lessons from cotton mills
Bishnupriya Gupta (University of Warwick) & Tetsuji Okazaki (University of Tokyo)
The role of public employment services in a developing country
Ryo Kambayashi (Hitotsubashi University)
IB: F INANCIAL C RISES (chair: tba)
Managing risk or appeasing the Nazis? British banks and Standstill debt in the 1930s
Mark Billings (University of Exeter)
The propagation of the 1931 financial crisis to the New York and London financial centres: new evidence from micro-data
Oliver Accominotti (London School of Economics)
The Swedish recovery from the Great Depression
Kerstin Enflo (Lund University) & Juan Rosés (London School of Economics)
This time is different: causes and consequences of British banking instability, 1830-2010
Christopher Coyle, Gareth Campbell and John Turner (Queen’s University Belfast)
IC: W ORLD W AR AND W OMEN IN THE T WENTIETH C ENTURY (chair: tba)
Female workers and the First World War in Britain: why no Labour supply shock?
Jessica Bean (Denison University)
The labour market for American women during 3 Crises: World War I, the Great Depression, and World War II
Price Fishback (University of Arizona), Dina Shatnawi (Naval Postgraduate School) & Alec Smith (Cal Tech)
A Memorandum of Dissent: divided opinion within the 1944-46 Royal Commission on Equal Pay
Sheena Evans
ID: H EIGHT AND H EALTH (chair: Peter Kirby)
Health, height and the household at the turn of the twentieth century
Timothy Hatton, Roy Bailey (University of Essex) & Kris Inwood (University of Guelph)
Children’s growth in an adaptive framework: explaining the growth patterns of American slaves and other historical populations
Eric Schneider (University of Sussex)
Sanitary reform in England and Wales, 1871-1914
Bernard Harris (University of Strathclyde) & Andrew Hinde (University of Southampton)
IE: T HE S TATE AND THE S HAPING OF G OOD T ASTE (chair: tba)
The state and the textile industry in early modern Europe
Giorgio Riello (University of Warwick)
Textile manufactures and state policies in Renaissance Italy
Luca Mola’ (European University Institute)
The Swedish textile trade in the early modern period
Klas Nyberg (Stockholm University)
IF: O CCUPATIONAL S TRUCTURE I (chair: tba)
Reconsidering recent estimates of the occupational structure of late fourteenth-century England
Tony Wrigley (University of Cambridge)
The occupational structure of England and Wales, c.1650-1780
Sebastian Keibek & Craig Muldrew (University of Cambridge)
The occupational structure of England and Wales 1381-1951
Leigh Shaw-Taylor (University of Cambridge)
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IG: W HITE C OLLAR W ORKERS (chair: tba)
British clerical workers, career ladders and the rise of internal labour markets, 1880-1914
Michael Heller (Brunel University)
The occupational health and welfare of clerical workers in twentieth-century Britain
Nicole Robertson (Northumbria University)
Strategy, technology and gender: making and unmaking the marriage bar in twentieth-century British clerical work
Alan McKinlay (Newcastle University) & Scott Taylor (University of Birmingham)
IH: S TATE C APACITY AND C ONFLICT (chair: tba)
The emergence of political stability: an empirical investigation
Mark Koyama (George Mason University) & James Reade (University of Reading)
Habemus Papam? Polarisation and conflict in the Papal States
Jordi Vidal-Robert (University of Warwick) & Francisco Pino (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Military conflict and the economic rise of urban Europe
Mark Dincecco (University of Michigan) & Massimiliano Onorato (IMT Lucca)
From slums to slums in three generations: housing policy and the political economy of the welfare state, 1945-
2005
Harold Carter (University of Oxford)
1045-1115 Coffee (Ramphal Foyer)
1115-1300 A CADEMIC S ESSION
IIA: A FRICA (chair: tba)
II (8 parallel sessions)
Africa’s growth prospects in a European mirror: A historical perspective
Stephen Broadberry & Leigh Gardner (London School of Economics)
The labour productivity differential between the West Indies and West Africa, 1680-1830
Wasiq Khan (Franklin College Switzerland)
Long-run welfare development in Africa: an anthropometric study on the influence of colonialism and slavery
Joerg Baten (Tuebingen University)
IIB: C APITAL M ARKETS (chair: tba)
Capitalising on the Irish ‘Land question’: Irish land bonds, 1891-1938
Nathan Foley-Fisher (Federal Reserve Board) & Eoin McLaughlin (University of Edinburgh)
Protecting the borrower: an experiment in colonial India
Anand Swamy (Williams College) & Latika Chaudhary (Scripps College)
Cholera and the effect of empire: the case of Indian ‘sovereign’ debts
Nicolas Degive & Kim Oosterlinck (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
Rating the United Kingdom: the British government’s first sovereign credit rating, 1976-78
David Gill (University of Nottingham)
IIC: G ENDER AND E CONOMIC S URVIVAL (chair: tba)
How much did English women earn in the past?
Jane Humphries (University of Oxford) & Jacob Weisdorf (University of Southern Denmark)
Sex, science and economics: the problem of infertility c.1650-c.1750
Judith Spicksley (University of York) & Amanda Capern (University of Hull)
Making the household work: non-kin deployment as a survival strategy in the early modern household (Gilze and
Rijen, The Netherlands, 18th century)
Richard Zijdeman (IISH) & Tine de Moor (Utrecht University)
IID: M IGRATION AND I DENTITY (chair: tba)
The economic payoff of name Americanization
Costanza Biavaschi (IZA), Corrado Giulietti (IZA) & Zahra Siddique (University of Reading)
Inheritable traits and turn-of-the-century wealth inequality: evidence from an American Indian reservation,
1894-1906
Matthew Gregg (Roger Williams University)
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Reinterpreting pre-World War I mass migration by using travel statistics
Drew Keeling
Hidden communities: a quantitative assessment of international migration to Edinburgh at the turn of the twentieth century
Marc di Tommasi (University of Edinburgh)
IIE: C OMPANIES AND THE S TATE (chair: tba)
East India Companies, private trade and smuggling and the popularisation of the consumption of tea in Western
Europe, 1700-60
Chris Nierstrasz (University of Warwick)
Managerial sway within the English East India Company
Santhi Hejeebu (Cornell College)
The business strategy of an interloper: The Swedish East India Company 1731-83
Leos Müller (Stockholm University)
IIF: O CCUPATIONAL S TRUCTURE II (chair: tba)
Economic development and structural change since 1700: new evidence in a global perspective
Osamu Saito (Hitotsubashi University)
Economic transformation from the late Ottoman Empire to the early Turkish Republic: de-industrialisation or urban economic growth?
Erdem Kabadayi (Istanbul Bilgi University)
Female employment, occupational structure and industrialisation in comparative perspective
Natalia Mora-Sitja (University of Cambridge)
IIG: F RENCH B USINESS AND W EBER (chair: tba)
Recording precision and tracking efforts in eighteenth century bookkeeping
Guillaume Daudin (Université Paris-Dauphine) & Pierre Gervais (Université Paris-3)
Enemy mine: merchant networks, neutrality and wartime
Cheryl McWatters (University of Ottawa)
What drove (or choked) French entrepreneurship under Napoleon III? A department-level analysis
Jean-Pierre Dormois (Université de Strasbourg) & James Foreman-Peck (Cardiff University)
IIH: G ROWTH AND D IVERGENCE (chair: tba)
American exceptionalism in global perspective
Robert Allen (University of Oxford) & Ekaterina Khaustova (Russian State Social University)
Geography and the great divergence: market access and economic growth in the nineteenth century
Max-Stephan Schulze, Paul Caruana-Galizia (London School of Economics) & Nicholas Crafts (University of
Warwick)
Assessing negative freedom: economic liberty in the long run
Leandro Prados de la Escosura (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
1300-1400 Lunch (Rootes Restaurant)
1415-1600 A CADEMIC S ESSION III (8 parallel sessions)
IIIA: R USSIA (chair: tba)
Understanding the process of Russian serf emancipation
Steven Nafziger (Williams College)
Factory productivity and the concession system of incorporation in late Imperial Russia
Amanda Gregg (Yale University)
Did property rights matter in Russia? The case of the Stolypin Reform
Andre Markevich & Paul Castañeda Dower (New Economic School Moscow)
IIIB: M ONEY M ARKETS (chair: tba)
Smoothing the flow, currency circulation and payment techniques in the Low Countries, 1500-1800
Joost Jonker & Oscar Gelderblom (Utrecht University)
Ferries and finance: the financial infrastructure of the Dutch Republic
Christiaan van Bochove (Radboud University Nijmegen)
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The coevolution of money markets and central banks
Clemens Jobst (Oesterreichische Nationalbank) & Stefano Ugolini (University of Tolouse)
Britannia as a symbol of credible commitment
Anne Murphy & Jennifer Basford (University of Hertfordshire)
IIIC: W OMEN ’ S C OMMITTEE 25 T H A NNIVERSARY S ESSION (chair: Helen Paul)
Happy families? Varieties of family life in twentieth-century Britain
Pat Thane (King’s College London)
Skill, craft and histories of Industrialisation in Europe and Asia
Maxine Berg (University of Warwick)
The rise and fall of the Welsh woollen industry: some questions for historians
Pat Hudson (Cardiff University & London School of Economics)
IIID: M ORTALITY T RANSITION IN U RBAN P OPULATIONS (chair: tba)
The law of ‘urban natural decrease’: interpreting baptism:burial ratios in English urban centres c.1540-c.1840
Richard Smith (University of Cambridge)
The first stages of the epidemiological transition in British cities: a comparison of Manchester and London,
1750-1820
Romola Davenport, John Black (University of Cambridge) & Jeremy Boulton (Newcastle University)
Death in town and country: Scotland 1861-1901
Alice Reid (University of Cambridge) & Eilidh Garrett (University of St Andrews)
IIIE: S ILK (chair: tba)
Asian silk in eighteenth-century Scandinavia: quantities, colour schemes and impact
Hanna Hodacs (University of Warwick)
‘The silk manufacture has a claim to particular attention’: silk consumption and the American Revolution
Ben Marsh (University of Stirling)
Smuggling silks in eighteenth-century Britain: supply, distribution and product design
William Farrell (Birkbeck College, University of London)
IIIF: R E EVALUATING T HE E NGLISH L AND T AX (chair: tba)
The Land Tax of 1798 and patterns of landownership and farm tenancy: a county case study, Buckinghamshire
John Broad (University of Cambridge)
A new approach to the land tax: the Redemption Certificates and the structure of landowning and tenancies in
Yorkshire and Essex
Richard Hoyle (University of Reading)
Land ownership and land occupation in the wider hinterland of the Romney Marsh region during the mid and later eighteenth century
Stephen Hipkin (Canterbury Christ Church University
IIIG: M ODERN S COTTISH E CONOMY (chair: tba)
The economic basis of Scottish nationhood circa 1870-2014
Jim Tomlinson (University of Glasgow)
The Scottish experience of foreign direct investment, 1945-97
Duncan Ross (University of Glasgow)
The moral economy of deindustrialization in post-1945 Scotland
Jim Phillips (University of Glasgow)
IIIH: M ARKETS AND I NTEGRATION (chair: tba)
The gravity of information: postal flows and international integration, 1880-1937
Markus Lampe (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) & Florian Ploeckl (University of Adelaide)
Variations in the price and quality of grain, 1750-1914: quantitative evidence and empirical implications.
Liam Brunt (NHH - Norwegian School of Economics) & Edmund Cannon (University of Bristol)
West versus East: early globalisation and the Great Divergence
Rafael Dobado-González, Alfredo García-Hiernaux (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) & David Guerrero-
Burbano (CUNEF)
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Coffee and Rothschilds: the secret finance of the Brazilian valorisation scheme, 1906-29
Leonardo Weller (Sao Paulo School of Economics – FGV)
1600-1630 Tea (Ramphal Foyer)
1615-1715
1630-1730
Meeting of Schools and Colleges Committee
Plenary session (History & Policy): (chair: tba) (Ramphal Lecture Theatre)
Why has the UK become more tolerant of inequality since the 1970s?
Ben Jackson (University of Oxford ) tba
Pedro Ramos Pinto (University of Cambridge) tba
Jesse Norman (Member of Parliament) - tbc tba
1730-1830
1930-2000
Annual General Meeting of the Economic History Society
Conference Reception (Panorama Suite)
(Kindly sponsored by the Department of Economics and the Global History & Culture Centre,
University of Warwick)
2000 C ONFERENCE D INNER (Panorama Suite)
Late bar available (Panorama Suite)
S UNDAY 30 M ARCH 2014
0800-0900 Breakfast ( Rootes Restaurant )
0930-1130 A CADEMIC S ESSION IV (8 parallel sessions)
IVA: E CONOMIC N ATIONALISM (chair: tba)
The colony strikes back: the case of Colombia, Jersey Standard and the United States
Xavier Duran (Universidad de los Andes)
Autarky and the building up of technological capabilities in Italy: rayon firms and the domestic production of wood-pulp, 1934-44
Valerio Cerretano (University of Glasgow)
Political regimes, ideology and protection in western agriculture, 1920-80
Eva Fernandez (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Market integration and the origins of economic nationalism
Nikolaus Wolf & Marvin Suesse (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
IVB: F INANCIAL B UBBLES (chair: Larry Neal)
Riding a wave: the Company’s role in the South Sea Bubble
Richard Kleer (University of Regina)
War, public debt and financial bubbles, 1719-20: a European perspective
Stefano Condorelli (University of Oxford)
San Giorgio and the Mississippi Company: a hypothesis on the origins of John Law’s Scheme
Carlo Taviani (Yale University)
Behavioural foundations of financial speculation during the South Sea Bubble
Koji Yamamoto (King’s College London)
IVC: W OMEN AND W ORK (chair: tba)
The onset of female labour market participation and the role of the mothers
Matilde Machado, Jesus Carro & Ricardo Mora (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Risk and success: re-assessing female entrepreneurship in late-Victorian and Edwardian England
Paolo di Martino & Jennifer Aston (University of Birmingham)
Women, well-being and the female industrial inspector
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Beatrice Moring (Universities of Helsinki & Cambridge)
Work attendance, gender and marital status: evidence from Sweden, 1890-1960
Tobias Karlsson (Lund University)
IVD: S URVIVAL S TRATEGIES IN E UROPE (chair: tba)
Complementary institutions? Guilds and social provision in medieval urban Europe
Arie van Steensel (Utrecht University)
Poor Relief in seventeenth-century Dundee
John McCallum (Nottingham Trent University)
Mother, father or parish? The maintenance of illegitimate children in Southwark in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries
Samantha Williams (University of Cambridge)
Gender, life-cycle and family strategies among the poor: Barcelona, 1762-1803
Julie Marfany (University of Oxford) & Montserrat Carbonell (University of Barcelona)
IVE: I NNOVATION AND E NERGY (chair: tba)
The geography of innovation in Italy, 1861-1913: evidence from patent data
Michelangelo Vasta (University of Siena) & Alessandro Nuvolari (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies)
The Great Divergence and the economics of printing
Luis Angeles (University of Glasgow)
Malthus to Solow with coal: modelling the industrial revolution as if energy mattered
John Pezzey, David Stern (Australian National University) & Astrid Kander (Lund University)
Charcoal consumption by the iron industry in early modern England and Wales
Peter W King
IVF: R URAL E CONOMIES (chair: tba)
Spinners, weavers and hemp growers
David Celetti (Università degli Studi di Padova)
Capital accumulation and non-agrarian activity in the English countryside, c.1540-1640
Dave Postles (University of Hertfordshire)
The beginning of the end: sheep panzootics and the fortunes of wool industry in England, 1250-1330
Philip Slavin (University of Kent)
Valuations of ecclesiastical property in Inquisitions post mortem
Elizabeth Gemmill (University of Oxford)
IVG: M ASS C ONSUMPTION AND M ARKETING (chair: tba)
Producer-driven supply chains for the inter-war US radio equipment sector: were dealers ‘over-sold’ on marketing?
Peter Scott & James Walker (University of Reading)
Radio broadcast technologies and African consumers: the puzzling case of the ‘Saucepan Special’, c.1947-53
David Clayton (University of York)
‘Slowly becoming sales promotion men’: negotiating the career of the sales representative in Britain, 1930s-60s
Michael French (University of Glasgow)
Product design and public competitions in the lock and safe industry of Victorian Britain
David Churchill (IHR/Birkbeck College, University of London)
IVH: I NSTITUTIONS AND E DUCATION (chair: tba)
Education promoted secularization
Sascha Becker (University of Warwick), Markus Nagler (University College London) & Ludger Woessman
(University of Munich and ifo)
Human capital before the industrial revolution: Institutions and the ‘decline’ of apprenticeship in eighteenthcentury England
Patrick Wallis & Chris Minns (London School of Economics)
Governance after the Glorious Revolution: evidence on the enforcement of property rights in Britain’s transport sector, 1690-1750
Dan Bogart (UC Irvine)
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From bunches of privileges to bunches of contracts: large firms at the fall of the Venetian Republic
Giovanni Favero (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
1130-1200 Coffee (Ramphal Foyer)
1200-1315 T AWNEY L ECTURE
Professor Pat Hudson (Cardiff University and London School of Economics)
Title: tba
(Ramphal Lecture Theatre)
1315-1415
1415-1715
Lunch (Rootes Restaurant)
Careers and Publishing Session for New Researchers
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