​QUCEH Seminar Schedule: 2025-2026
Seminars take place in the QBS Conference Hub Seminar Room (01.012).
​Our economic history seminars are integrated into the QBS Department of Economics seminar and brown bag series.

Semester 1

​Week 2: 3PM Friday 26 September 2025 (department seminar)
Eric Melander (University of Birmingham)
Unpopular Reforms, Social Unrest and Grassroots Political Movements​

Week 3: 1PM Monday 29 September 2025 (brown bag)
Paudie McKee (QUB)
Civil Servants Pouring Pints: The Effect of the State Management Scheme on Drunkenness, 1916-1937​

Week 5: 1PM Monday 13 October 2024 (brown bag)
Rebecca Walton (QUB)
The End of the Assize: Measuring Changes in the Quality of British Bread after Deregulation
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​David Weatherup (QUB)
Ownership Form and Capital Productivity: the Liverpool-South America trade, 1800-1830

Week 7: 4PM, Wednesday 29 October 2025 (extra seminar in QBS Entrepreneurial Hub)
Judy Stephenson (UCL)
Labour costs, wage bargaining, and technological change: Evidence for skilled work from early industrialising England, 1760-1840

Week 7: 3PM Friday 31 October 2025 (department seminar)
David Cuberes (Maynooth University)
Are Short-Lived Localized Productivity Shocks Persistent? Historical Evidence
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Week 9: 3PM Friday 14 November (department seminar)
Gaia Narciso (Trinity College Dublin)
Are Short-Lived Localized Productivity Shocks Persistent? Historical Evidence​
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Week 10: 1PM Monday 17 November 2025 (brown bag)
Calumet Links (Stellenbosch and Lund)
Collapse and Persistence before 1713: Rethinking Khoekhoen Political Economy at the Early Cape
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Week 11: 1PM Monday 24 November 2025 (brown bag)
Marco Cokic (LSE)

Week 11: 3PM Friday 28 November 2025 (department ​seminar)
Jutta Bolt (​University of Groningen)
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Semester 2

​Week 17: 3PM Friday 30 January 2026 (department seminar)
Seán Kenny (Lund University)

Week 20: 3PM Friday 20 February 2026 (department seminar)
Kevin O’Rourke (Science Po, Paris)

Week 21: 3PM Friday 27 February 2026 (department seminar)
Lars Börner (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)

​Week 13: 3PM Friday 13 March 2026 (department ​seminar)
​Marlous van Waijenburg (Harvard Business School)