Economics, politics, and custom at the country mill: Bovey Tracey, Devon, 1599–1732

In seventeenth-century England goldsmiths became what we would now recognise as bankers. Goldsmiths’ shops sold not only gold and silver plate but also instruments of credit, such as bonds and bills o...

An online lunchtime seminar series bringing together academics at all career stages to share new works in Economic and Financial History.

The city of Gdańsk has a historical centre with several striking buildings which can make any historian’s heart beat faster, even with the knowledge that they were partly rebuilt after the destruct…

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The Compensation Agency Business: London Merchants, Bankers, and the Payment of Slavery Compensation, 1835-46

Organisers: Dr Michael Bennett (University of Sheffield), Dr Misha Ewen (University of Sussex), and Dr Hannah Murphy (MMoR & CEMS, KCL) Barbados is central to the global history of slavery. The ...

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Published in Northern History (Vol. 61, No. 2, 2024)

Our next annual conference will be held in person at the Black Country Living Museum in Dudley. Our call for papers is open now. What to Expect Our next annual conference will take place at the Bla…

The Politics of the English Grain Trade Project are hosting a two-day conference, 9-10 June 2025 at All Souls College, Oxford, on the comparative history of the grain trade. The trade in grain…

The Politics of the English Grain Trade Project are hosting a two-day conference, 9-10 June 2025 at All Souls College, Oxford, on the comparative history of the grain trade. The trade in grain…

In the later seventeenth century, a path passing through the Temple Newsam estate in West Yorkshire became the subject of intense and prolonged litigation. The disputants contested whether the path...

A British geneticist scoured the globe for diverse grains in the 1920s. His research could be vital as the climate changes

The windmills are among an array of finds dating back 3,000 years discovered during a dig.

The next in our series of guest blogs for 2024 which explore issues relating to the grain trade across Europe in the period 1315-1815. Mills were among the most important infrastructure in Early Moder...

by Dr. Laura Flannigan (St. John’s, University of Oxford) The early modern period witnessed unprecedented levels of litigation. Indeed, the size of surviving archive of court rolls, pleadings, and dep...

Mark Hailwood England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries was a remarkably – and increasingly – litigious society. Whether through a growing drive to prosecute crimes and enforce laws, or a gre...

“One of the early inventors of computers, Turing, wrote that there were many arguments against the possibility of machine sentience that…

The project is delighted to announce a forthcoming volume entitled The English Grain Trade, c.1300-c.1850, to be published in the British Academy Records of Social and Economic History series. The vol...

Cameron Whiteside | 15 February 2024 ◇ Early Modern History | British History | Legal History

New Images Available: HERE New Trailer Available: https://youtu.be/2JmtnkfdC4U LONDON, UK (February 8, 2024) ) – Disney+ has today released the official trailer for thrilling new murder mystery ser...