Research Seminar Schedule - Michaelmas Term, 2009

All seminars were held at 5.0 at Newnham College. Seminars to be held in The Lucia Windsor Room unless otherwise noted. The most up-to-date information is available on our page at talks.cam.

12 October 2009: Professor Geoffrey Wood (Cass Business School)
‘Shattered on the Rock? British Financial Stability from 1866 to 2007.’

2 November 2009: Professor Tom Safley (History Department, UPenn)
'The Hochstetter Bankruptcy of 1529 and the Market for Quicksilver (Mercury) in early modern Europe.'

16 November 2009: Ms Claudia Scala (Manuscript Cataloguer, Henry Charles Lea Library)
'Exploring the Medici-Gondini Ledgers in the Henry Charles Lea Library.'

16 November 2009: Mr Duncan Needham (Cambridge, History Faculty, Trinity Hall)
'The political economy of Competition and Credit Control .'

30 November 2009: Dr Vincent Bignon (EconomiX, University of Paris - Nanterre)
'The economics of badmouthing: Defamation, rackeetering and the French Financial Press at the end of the 19th century.'

7 December 2009: Professor Charles Calomiris (Columbia Business School)
'Historical Banking Crises and Lessons for Today: How the British Ended Banking Crises in the Mid-19th Century.'