Student Internships

Taxation in the Holy Roman Empire
Oliver Volckart
This project investigates the factors that determined to which extent the members of the Holy Roman Empire were meeting their obligation to pay the 'Turkish Aids' that the Imperial Diet granted to the Emperor. Did this depend on, for example, their distance to the Ottoman frontier, on their religious outlook or dynastic allegiance, on their political status, or on some other factor?
Chamberlain's Court
Patrick Wallis
The Chamberlain’s Court was one of the last bastions of coercive labour relations in nineteenth century England, able to imprison unruly youths for misbehaviour at work even though adult employment disputes had been decriminalised. This project explores the way in which masters used the Court to discipline apprentices, the ways apprentices defended themselves, and sometimes turned the tables on their employers. It informs an edition of the Court’s records that is based on research by our second year undergraduate students.
Determinants and Consequences of Elite Wealth: evidence from 700 years of Baltic history
Tom Raster
The prject aims to trace wealth inequality across centures, focussing in particular on how wealthy elites in the Baltics managed to weather various shocks, eg. plagues, invasion, expropriation.
The Political Economy of Monetary Policy between the World Wars
Pamfili Antipa
We are interested in why the UK to decided to resume the Gold Standard in 1925. This decision entailed major consequences, as it prolonged and aggravated the Great Depression. Using newly hand-collected data, we seek to understand the economic motivations and political constraints of instutions, such as the Bank of England, and members of government
Recovering from the UK Great Depression
Jason Lennard
This project investigates the causes of the recovery from the UK Great Depression focussing on expectations and monetary policy
The Last Will and Sentiment
Neil Cummins
For the past millennium, the “last Will and Testament” guided the transmission of wealth at death, in England and in many other places. There exist many millions of these handwritten documents, which typically listed descriptively in about 1,000 of their own words an individual’s assets and inheritors. These wills represent our best record of individual lives and the economic, family, social and religious influences which mattered most to them as they contemplated their death.
State Capacity and State Failures in China
Kent Deng
This project investigates government taxation, government spending, government welfare provision (health, education, famine relief, and so forth), and economic development (industrialisation, urbanisation, and HDI) since 1949.
Who Governed Colonial Africa? Taxation and representation in the British Empire
Leigh Gardner
Who held power in colonial Africa? Colonial governments made policies which have had lasting impacts on the continent's development. But they were constrained in many ways - by the lack of staff and resources, and by their lack of legitimacy with those they ruled. Recent research in political science has shown that the survival of autocratic regimes often depends on elaborate strategies of power sharing and aptronage. Similarly, British colonial governments used systems of power sharing and resource distribution at various administrative levels to maintain stability during the colonial period. This project gathers new data on the composition and activities of colonial legislative councils to show how these methods varied between and within colonies, reflecting local economic and political circumstances.
The Labour Share of Income in Medieval England
Jordan Claridge
The Black Death is seen as a watershed moment in long-run economic history. Very generally, the story is that the plague's drastically negative demo- graphic consequences triggered labor scarcity, resulting in a stark increase in wages, which paved the way for higher consumption and the proliferation of markets. Nonetheless, recent work has raised questions about both the extent and nature of these changes. (Humphries & Weisdorf, 2019; Claridge, Delabastita, & Gibbs, 2024).
This project adopts a novel perspective to explore the structural market changes following the Black Death by quantifying the revenue share of medieval agricultural labour(ers). We do so by quantifying the expenses paid by lords to both casual and annual labor. We demonstrate that, under a plausible set of assumptions, the labor share of revenues is able to inform us on potential structural changes in agricultural production following the Black Death, as well as its consequences in terms of changing power dynamics in medieval labor markets.
Birth Registers of the Queen Charlotte Hospital
Eric Schneider
The Queen Charlotte Birth Registers record information about the health of children born in this hospital in the early twentieth century. I am currently using this information to study the effects of pollution on health and will use it in the future to analyse the determinants of children's health at birth.
The Political Economy of Imperial China
Melanie Xue
This is an umbrella term covering various projects, including the study of reformed Confucian thought and policy reforms to the imperial examination system.

Manuscript preparation
Tirthankar Roy
Mughal Empire fact/data checking
Safya Morshed
The Chamberlain's Court (expansion of an EH237 project)
Patrick Wallis
The diffusion of folklore in 19th century Germany
Melanie Xue
Mapping mental asylums in 19th century England
Melanie Xue
Regional growth/inequality in the Habsburg Empire, c.1820-1913
Max Schulze
China's long-term demographic data-processing from the Han to the Qing periods
Kent Deng
(Real) wages in the Middle Ages
Jordan Claridge

Extraction and structuring of published data on 16th century taxpayers
Patrick Wallis
Checking of Chamberlain's Court transcriptions (EH237 only)
Patrick Wallis
Digitisation of 19th century rye prices and conversion in gram silver
Oliver Volckart
Creation of literature review on social construction of identities
Max Schulze
Digitising/coding data on the constitutional structures of British colonies over the 19th and 20th centuries
Leigh Gardner
Data collection of living standards in 20th century China
Kent Deng
Transcription of Government bond yields
Jason Lennard
Creation of database of French-Canadian parish records
Chris Minns

Welfare ratios and real wags
Sara Horrell
Lock Asylum Project
Patrick Wallis
Transcription of marriage records after 1980 and coding of occupations to a status schema
Neil Cummins
Women in 19th century England
Melanie Xue
Folklore/oral traditions in Europe
Melanie Xue
Chinese economic and political history project
Melanie Xue
Regional inequality and market access
Max Schulze
Africa's monetary geography since 1800
Leigh Gardner
Transcription of records in LSE Library to create a dataset for China's farming sector
Kent Deng
Digitisation and preliminary analysis of 13th and 14th century tax documents
Jordan Claridge
The US motion picture industry since 1945
Gerben Bakker
Child stunting project
Eric Schneider
Anglo-Asian trade in the Pacific west coast and foreign exchange markets in London 1800s-1830s
Alejandra Irigoin

Lock Asylum project
Patrick Wallis
Creation of bibliography for project on state formation in Europe (1500-1870)
Mapping Medieval manors
Jordan Claridge
Transcription of medical records from Queen Charlotte Hospital
Eric Schneider
Photographing documents at Kew
Anne Ruderman

Student Internships

Faculty projects that have formed part of the EHAB Student Internship Programme

2024-25

2023-24

2022-23

2021-22

2020-21