Welcome to Queen's University Centre for Economic History

Queen's University Centre for Economic History (QUCEH) is an interdisciplinary research centre based at Queen's Management School, Queen's University Belfast. It brings together faculty and graduate students working on the economic study of the past from across the university and elsewhere.

News

Economic History Roundtable
QUCEH is organising a roundtable discussion on Information Revolutions on Thursday 24 May 2018. Participants will be from academia, journalism and the private sector. More details are here.

Research Assistant Post
We are seeking a Research Assistant commencing in October 2018 to work on the ESRC-funded  project ''The Sterling Area Revisited'. Further information and details on how to apply can be found here.

Gyorky Ranki Prize
QUCEH Research Affiliate Bruce Campbell has been awarded the Gyorgy Ranki Biennial Prize for an Outstanding Book on the Economic History of Europe at the 2017 meetings of the Economic History Association in San Jose for his book The Great Transition: Climate, Disease and Society in the Late-Medieval World.
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Graduate Study Opportunities

MSc in Economics
Queen's Management School hosts an MSc programme in Economics. The programme has an Economic History track, and offers all the necessary training to pursue a PhD in Economic History. Applicants must hold a prior degree in economics or a related subject, and have achieved at least an upper second class degree classification.
More details are found here.
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New Research from Queen's University Belfast

  • In a new QUCEH working paper, Graeme G. Acheson, Christopher Coyle and John D. Turner provide support for the classical microstructure theories of informed trading using a novel dataset of pre-1920s trading activity of a major LSE-listed corporation.
  • Graeme G. Acheson, Christopher Coyle, David P. Jordan and John D. Turner investigate share trading activity over the period 1882 to 1920 for the North British and Mercantile Insurance Company in a new QUCEH working paper.
  • A new QUCEH working paper by Chris Colvin, Stuart Henderson and John D. Turner takes an evolutionary economics approach to understanding the origins of financial cooperatives in the Netherlands and the turn of the twentieth century.​
  • Alan de Bromhead, Alan Fernihough, Markus Lampe and Kevin O'Rourke have a new QUCEH working paper that explores exactly how trade between Britain and the rest of the world collapsed during the Great Depression.
  • A new working paper by QUCEH Research Affiliate Rowena Gray introduces her new historical housing dataset for New York City at the turn of the twentieth century.
  • Seán Kenny, Jason Lennard and John D. Turner have a new QUCEH working paper which measures the macroeconomic effects of banking crises in UK history.
  • Matthias Blum, Chris Colvin and Eoin McLaughlin have a new working paper in the QUCEH Working Paper Series, which attempts to measure the impact of the Great Irish Famine on the health of survivors.
  • Alan Fernihough's new QUCEH Working Paper examines the child quality-quantity trade-off in early twentieth-century England and Wales.
  • Chris Colvin's new Journal of Economic History paper on the impact of the Protestant/Catholic divide in 1920s Dutch banking is now available on early view.
  • Matthias Blum's latest paper with Claudia Rei, which investigates the health and human capital of Holocaust refugees, has been accepted for publication by European Review of Economic History.
  • Matthias Blum's new paper with Nick Hanley and Eoin McLaughlin, entitled 'Accounting for Sustainable Development Over the Long Run: Lessons from Germany', has been accepted by German Economic Review.
  • ​Matthias Blum's forthcoming Economic History Review ​paper with Karl-Peter Krauss uses data on eighteenth-century German emigration to investigate the accuracy of age heaping as a measure of numeracy.
  • ​Matthias Blum and Alan de Bromhead have a new QUCEH working paper that looks at social mobility in Germany during the Nazi regime.
  • Alan de Bromhead and Alan Fernihough's (with Markus Lampe and Kevin H. O'Rourke) new working paper on interwar British trade policy is available as a QUCEH working paper. ​
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