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.

QUCEH serves as the Belfast node of the Centre for Economics, Policy and History (CEPH), a partnership with Trinity College Dublin.
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News

Seminar Schedule
The schedule for 2025-2026 is available here. Our seminar venue is the QBS Conference Hub Seminar Room, on the Riddel Hall campus.
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Working Papers
The QUCEH working paper series constitutes preprint working papers by scholars associated with our research centre. Visit this page to read about the latest additions to the series.
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QUCEH Bookshop
Visit our bookshop page to purchase recent monographs and edited volumes by QUCEH members.
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The Long Run Institute
​The Long Run Institute is a not-for-profit forum co-run by members of QUCEH. Find out more here.

The CEO
Michael Aldous and John Turner present their new book, The CEO: The Rise and Fall of Britain's Captains of Industry, at the Irish Stock Exchange (18 September 2025).
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Scarring and Selection in the Great Irish Famine
Video abstract for new article in The Economic History Review (March, 2025) by Matthias Blum, Chris Colvin and Eoin McLaughlin.