Economic and Social History Research Seminar

The Oxford Economic and Social History Seminar meets in person in the Lecture Theatre, Faculty of History, unless otherwise stated.

Please email mailto:ocesh@history.ox.ac.uk to be added to the mailing list.

For any questions, please email: mailto:rebecca.simson@history.ox.ac.uk or mailto:ying.dai@history.ox.ac.uk

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Type: Seminar Series
Series organisers: Rebecca Simson, Ying Dai
Timing: Tuesdays at 17:00-18:30 - in-person only
Organising department: Faculty of History

Talks:

Tuesday 6 May 2025

A Subsectoral Analysis of Historical Occupational Data and Their Relation to Economic Growth, New Data and Methods
Date: 6 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Alexis Litvine (Cambridge)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 13 May 2025

Wage Differentials in Seventeenth-Century Venice
Date: 13 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Francesca Trivellato (Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 20 May 2025

Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Regina Grafe (Cambridge)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 27 May 2025

Female Servants in Early Modern England: A New History in Global, Long-run Perspective?
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Charmian Mansell (Sheffield)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 3 June 2025

The Dynamics of Elite Wealth: Accumulation, Shocks, and Family Networks in the Baltics over 700 years
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Tom Raster (LSE), Co-author: Maximilian Dörfler (Paris School of Economics)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 10 June 2025

Bringing the Contractor Back In: The Thirty Years' War and the Fiscal-Military State
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Victoria Gierok (Oxford)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 17 June 2025

Narratives from European-African Encounters
Date: 17 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Alexander Moradi (University of Bozen-Bolzano)
Venue: History Faculty, George Street OX1 2RL
Venue Details: Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Editors: Laura Spence, Belinda Clark