Organisers (2020-21)
Dr Jordan Claridge - j.claridge@lse.ac.uk
Professor Sara Horrell - s.h.horrell@lse.ac.uk
Professor Max-Stefan Schulze - m.s.schulze@lse.ac.uk
Seminars are online, starting 16:30-18:00 UK time
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Seminars - Summer Term 2021
06 May
- Spike Gibbs (LSE)
- Lord, state and community: local governance in England, 1300-1650
13 May
- Federica Carugati (King's College, London)
- State Capacity and Organizational Learning in Classical Greece
20 May
- Joe Day (Bristol)
- Did regional cultures slow nineteenth-century British urbanisation? Evidence from the individual-level 1851-1911 census returns
27 May
- Teresa da Lopes Silva (York )
- Unbundling the brand: Differentiation and the Law in the Brazilian South American Tea Industry
03 June
- Claudia Rei (Warwick)
- Priests and Postmen: historical origins of national identity
10 June
- Ian Gazeley (LSE)
- Child costs, household structure and the rise of average incomes in Britain in the 19th and 20th centuries.
17 June
- Chris Minns (LSE )
- Intergenerational mobility in a Mid-Atlantic economy: Canada, 1871-1901
Lent Term 2021
21 January
- David Edgerton, KCL
- The United Kingdom’s disappearing wartime imports 1939-1945: a statistical, ideological, and historiographical accounting
28 January
- Markus Lampe, Vienna University of Economics and Business
- Winners and Losers from Enclosure: Evidence from Danish Land Inequality 1682-1895
4 February
- Alex Klein, University of Kent
- Transport Costs in the Age of Highways: Measurement and Spatial Patterns, United States 1955-2010
11 February
- Ariell Zimran, Vanderbilt
- Like an Ink Blot on Paper: Testing the Diffusion Hypothesis of Mass Migration, Italy 1876-1920.
18 February
- Sybille Lehmann-Hasemeyer, University of Hohenheim
- 120 years of going public - IPOs on German stock exchanges
4 March
- Alice Evans (King's College, London)
- How did East Asia overtake South Asia?
11 March
- Romola Davenport, Cambridge
- The surprising efficacy of public health interventions in the early stages of the mortality transition in England: an evolutionary perspective on non-linearities in the relationship between public health investments and health outcomes
18 March
- Alice Kügler, UCL
- The Responsiveness of Inventing: Evidence from a Patent Fee Reform
25 March
Epstein Lecture 2021 - No seminar
1 April
- Lisbeth Rodrigues, Lisbon School of Economics and Management, University of Lisbon
- Historical Gender Discrimination Does Not Explain Comparative Western European Development: Evidence from Portugal, 1300-1900
October 15
- Dr Mikolaj Malinowski (University of Groningen)
- Incredible commitment; Inequality and consensus-making in the largest parliamentary state in Europe’s history
October 22
- Professor Andrew Seltzer (Royal Holloway and LSE) with Jonathan Wadsworth (Royal Holloway)
- The Impact of Public Transportation and Commuting on Urban Labour Markets: Evidence from the New Survey of London Life and Labour, 1929-32
October 29
- Dr Nuno Palma (University of Manchester)
- Comparative European Institutions and the Little Divergence, 1385-1800
November 12
- Professor Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck, University of London)
- The Unequal Future of Consumption
November 19
- Professor Mark Bailey (University of East Anglia)
- The Black Death and the origins of the Little Divergence in England 1348-1400
November 26
- Dr Alex Klein (University of Kent)
- TBA
December 3
- The Great Convergence: Skill Premiums in Africa and Asia, 1870-2010
- Marlous van Waijenburg (Harvard Business School)
December 10
- Leticia Arroyo Abad (CUNY)
- Blame it on the Governor? Retrospective voting in the 1918 Spanish Flu Pandemic in the United States