Economic History Workshops
Workshops to be hosted by the department in 2026-27:
5, 6 November 2026, LSE and KCL
HELP - The History of Economics London Partnership
10 November 2026, KCL
Ninth Annual Historical Economic Demography Workshop
22 January 2027, LSE
Resilient Societies: shocks adaptation, and the persistence of inequality in historical perspective
20, 21 May 2027, LSE
3 June 2027, LSE
Previous workshops
Textiles from Bengal: a shared legacy
17 September 2025, LSE
Long-Run Productivity
20 November 2025 (Clare College, Cambridge)
Eighth Annual Historical Economic Demography Workshop
30 January 2026, LSE
Uses and abuses of the Murdock Atlas in social science research
13 April 2026, LSE
One Epidemic, Many Estimates (1EME): bridging methods to measure excess mortality
21, 22 May 2026, LSE
History of Economics: Ideas, Policy and Performativity
2 June 2026, LSE
The Financial History of War and Peace
19 June 2026, LSE
Workshops hosted by the Department in 2024-25:
- The Oxford, Warwick and LSE (OWL) Workshop in Economic History
8 November 2024 - Inaugural Financial History Group Workshop
29 November 2024 - HEHC 2024: The Economic History of Colonialism
13, 14 December 2024 - Seventh Annual Historical Economic Demography Workshop
31 January 2025 - Health Transitions in the Global South
9, 10 June 2025 - The LSE-Cambridge African Economic History Workshop
11 June 2025 - Britain's Return to the Gold Standard in 1925 Revisited
24 June 2025 (Bank of England)
- The government's role in agriculture and rural society
2 December 2023 - Sixth Annual Historical Demography Workshop
2 February 2024, LSE - Genealogical Sources in Economic History
3, 4 June 2024, LSE - What is a financial crisis?
Perceptions, memories, analyses in a long-run historical perspective
17, 18 June 2024