​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

Economic History Society Annual Conference 2019
​QUCEH is hosting this next EHS conference. For more details, see the EHS website.
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History Now
​History Now is a history talk show presented by Barry Sheppard and produced by local Belfast television station Northern Visions Television. In each episode, Barry brings together a group of academic or professional historians to discuss a topic in Irish history. QUCEH members have featured in a number of episodes.
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The Long Run Initiative
​The Long Run Initiative is a not-for-profit forum co-run by members of QUCEH. The Initiative is founded on three precepts: (1) to demonstrate the practical value of historical expertise to contemporary decision makers; (2) to create dialogue between academics, businesses and government; and (3) to provide an independent and international perspective on the challenges facing business and society. Find out more here.

QUCEH Seminar Schedule
Our seminar schedule for the second semester of 2018-2019 is available here. We meet in the Lecture Theatre of in the of Riddel Hall's Teaching Block Fridays at 1.30PM.
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An Economist's Guide to Economic History
Matthias Blum and Chris Colvin's new edited volume is now available for sale. The book aims to introduce economic history to economists. It showcases cutting-edge research and pedagogy from across our field. More details about the book are available here.
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Research News

• John Turner et al.'s new article in Review of Financial Studies has been profiled on a Harvard Law School blog. See the article here, and the blog here.
• A new article by Martin Quinn and co-authors reports on the results of a content analysis of the corporate disclosures of two Irish breweries with significant family ownership stakes (Guinness and Murphy's) from 1950 to 1972.
• New research by Alan Fernihough and Cormac Ó Gráda re-examines the link between demographic pressure and economic conditions in pre-Famine Ireland using hand-collected highly-disaggregated parish-level data.
• QUCEH Research Student Stephen Billington's new working paper looks at patenting behaviour during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars to discern the impact of warfare in innovation.
• Recent QUCEH graduate Nikita Lychakov's new working paper on the role of the state in the last financial crisis of Imperial Russia exploits novel data on interlocking directorates between the Russian state and the banking sector.
• QUCEH Research Student Stephen Billington's new working paper on patents and the Industrial Revolution uses the entire population of patents granted in the UK prior to 1852 to look at inventors' incentives.
• Graeme G. Acheson,Gareth Campbell, Áine Gallagher and John D. Turner's new working paper exploits a new dataset of 500,000 shareholders in the largest nineteenth-century British railways, and makes a surprising finding: women were not heavily influenced by male associates.
• 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.

More research by QUCEH members
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