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.

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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SPaRK PhD Programme
​QUCEH invites applications for the SPaRK PhD programme hosted by Queen’s University Belfast. SPaRK is a new doctoral training programme supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme. The scheme’s first wave of funding will support 10 outstanding early stage researchers to conduct high-quality research that is intersectoral, interdisciplinary and international in nature.
More details are found here.

New Research from Queen's University Belfast

• ​Matthias Blum's new QUCEH working 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.
• Chris Colvin's new QUCEH working paper investigates the impact of socioreligious segregation of Dutch society on rural banking during the 1920s.
• 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. 
• John Turner's new working paper on the development of company law, which is forthcoming in and Edward Elgar Press handbook, is available as a QUCEH working paper. 
• William Quinn, in his second QUCEH working paper on the British bicycle mania, explores the relationship between technological innovation and speculation.
• Gareth Campbell, Christopher Coyle and John Turner's new publication in the Journal of Financial Stability, which tracks British banking instability over the long run, is available for download here.
• William Quinn has a new QUCEH working paper on the British Bicycle Mania of the 1890s, in which he asks the question: can limits to arbitrage explain asset price reversals?
• Michael Aldous's new publication in Business History sets out to understand the role of brokers and auctioneers in the nineteenth-century Anglo-Indian trade.
• A new QUCEH working paper by Graeme Acheson, Gareth Campbell and John Turner examines the origins of investor protection under the common law.
• Gareth Campbell, Meeghan Rogers and John Turner have a new QUCEH working paper entitled 'The Rise and Decline of the UK’s Provincial Stock Markets, 1869-1929'.
• John Turner, Qing Ye and Clive B. Walker have a new QUCEH working paper which explores the impact of media coverage on stock returns in nineteenth century London.'
• A new QUCEH working paper by Stuart Henderson employs a variety of economic and financial indicators to examine the relationship between Roman Catholicism and Irish development in the Post‑Famine period.
• In a forthcoming article to appear in Economic History Review, available as a QUCEH working paper, Matthias Blum, Chris Colvin, Laura McAtackney and Eoin McLaughlin investigate human capital accumulation in Ireland with novel data sources and methodologies.
• In a new QUCEH working paper together with Claudia Rei from Vanderbilt University, QUCEH Research Associate Matthias Blum looks at the human and health capital of refugees escaping Nazi Europe to America through Lisbon using data from the US Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service between 1940 and 1942.
• Together with Graeme Acheson from Stirling, QUCEH Research Associates Gareth Campbell and John Turner ask the question: 'Who financed the great expansion of the Victorian equity market, and what attracted them to invest?' in a new QUCEH working paper. 
• A new working paper co-authored by QUCEH PhD student William Quinn explores the causes of stock price movements in the nineteenth century.​

More research by QUCEH members