Queen's University Centre for Economic History

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.

Announcements

Award-Winning Scholarship
Michael Aldous has been awarded the 2015 Mira Wilkins Prize for the best article in Enterprise and Society on international and comparative history, for his article entitled 'Avoiding Negligence and Profusion: The Failure of the Joint-Stock Form in the Anglo-Indian Tea Trade, 1840-1870'. The was awarded at the Business History Conference in Portland, Oregon, in March 2016.

John Turner has been awarded the Wadsworth Prize for Business History 2015 for his book Banking in Crisis: The Rise And Fall Of British Banking Stability, 1800 To The Present (CUP, 2014). Awarded by the Business Archives Council on 10 November 2015, the annual prize recognises outstanding contributions to the study of British business history published in the previous year.

Placement Success
Meeghan Rogers successfully defended her PhD in financial history this summer, and has started work as an Assistant Professor of Finance at Pfeiffer University, North Carolina.

EurHiStock 2016
This year's EurHiStock workshop will take place on 1-2 September.
Download call for papers here.

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.

New Research from Queen's University Belfast

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.
Forthcoming in the Routledge Companion to Business History, Chris Colvin's new bibliometric analysis of the field of banking history is available as a QUCEH working paper.
Together with Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico has written a new QUCEH working paper that links the slave trade with polygyny and HIV prevalence in sub-Saharan Africa.
Alan de Bromhead's new working paper on women voters and interwar trade policy is available as a QUCEH working paper.
Gareth Campbell and John Turner's new article in Business History uses a counterfactual approach to understand the decline in financial performance of Britain's railway network following its expansion in the 1840s.
Liam Kennedy's new working paper on the political economy of Nationalism and Unionism in Ireland is available as a QUCEH working paper.
Graeme Acheson, Christopher Coyle and John Turner's new paper on the financing of the UK brewing industry is available as a QUCEH working paper.
Alan Fernihough's new article on mixed marriages in pre-partition Ireland is published by Explorations in Economic History. A press release about his work is available here.
John Turner and Gareth Campbell each have chapters in a newly-published Oxford University Press book on British financial crises since 1825. John writes on the role of extended shareholder liability, while Gareth looks at the Railway Mania.
Graham Brownlow's new QUCEH working paper on the De Lorean uses Janos Kornai's ideas about Soft Budget Constraints to explain the rise and fall of this iconic motor company.

More research by QUCEH members