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 2023-2024 is available here. Our new 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.

Festival of Social Science 2023
‘I told you so!’ How economics can use the past to predict the future
On 2 November we hosted a CEPH outreach event at McHughs, one of Belfast's oldest pubs. Watch below.