​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 University Belfast. It brings together faculty and graduate students working on the economic study of the past from across the university and elsewhere.
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News

ESHSI Call for Papers
​Queen's University Belfast will be hosting the 2018 Annual Conference of the Economic and Social History Society of Ireland, on Friday 30 November and Saturday 1 December 2018. The society's call for papers is open to 5 October 2018. More details can be found on the ESHSI website.
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EHS Call for Papers
​It's coming home, it's coming home, it's coming, economic history's coming home! Queen's University Belfast will be hosting the 2019 Annual Conference of the Economic History Society on Friday 5 to Sunday 7 April 2019. The society's call for papers is open to 3 September 2018. More details can be found on the EHS website.
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FRESH Call for Papers
A FRESH meeting will be taking place at the University of Groningen on 30 November and 1 December 2018. The keynote will be Mauricio Drelichman, and the local organiser is Bert Kramer. The call for papers is open to Friday 31 August 2018. See here for the full call for papers.
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Graduate Study
Queen's Management School offers a one-year MSc programme in Economics. The programme has an Economic History track, and offers all the necessary training to pursue a PhD in an economic history research topic. Applicants must hold a prior degree in economics or a related subject, and have achieved at least an upper second class degree classification at undergraduate level. More details are found here.
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An Economist's Guide
Matthias Blum and Chris Colvin's new edited volume is now available for sale in advance of release in November 2018. The book aims to introduce the field of economic history to economists. With 49 contributors and 50 chapters, it will showcase cutting-edge research and pedagogy from our field. More details about the book are available here.
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QUCEH Director John Turner at recent QUCEH Economic History Impact Initiative event at Riddel Hall

QUCEH Research News

• Alan de Bromhead, Alan Fernihough and Enda Hargaden examine the relationship between the franchise extension and the results of the 1918 election in Ireland in a new QUCEH working paper.
• Using a new banking biography for Ireland, Seán Kenny and John D. Turner investigate the political roots of banking instability between 1797 and 1826 in a new QUCEH working paper.
• In a joint project with Alan Hanna, QUCEH PhD Researcher Stephen Billington has a new QUCEH working paper on the impact of the way patents are being classified in empirical research. They apply their new machine learning classification to historical patenting data for the Industrial Revolution.
• 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 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.​

More research by QUCEH members
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QUCEH Seminar Schedule
Our seminar schedule for the first semester of 2018-2019 is now available here. As in previous years, we meet on Fridays at 1.30PM. Note, however, a change in venue: seminars now take place in the Lecture Theatre of Riddel Hall's Teaching Block.