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| Centre for History and Economics | |
|---|---|
| Name | Centre for History and Economics |
| Established | 1991 |
| Location | Cambridge, England |
| Institution | University of Cambridge |
| Director | (varies) |
| Website | (see University of Cambridge) |
Centre for History and Economics
The Centre for History and Economics is an interdisciplinary research unit at the University of Cambridge combining scholarship on historical episodes such as the Industrial Revolution, the Great Depression, the Long Depression, the French Revolution, and the Reformation with analysis influenced by figures and institutions like Adam Smith, John Maynard Keynes, David Ricardo, Cambridge School, and the Kennedy School of Government. It connects archives including the British Library, the National Archives, the Bodleian Library, and the Library of Congress with methodological resources from scholars associated with the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, the Department of Economics, University of Cambridge, the London School of Economics, the Harvard University Department of History, and the Princeton University Department of History.
The centre situates case studies such as the South Sea Bubble, the Tulip Mania, the Irish Famine, the American Civil War, the Meiji Restoration, the Opium Wars, and the Suez Crisis within analytical frameworks that draw on literature by Karl Marx, Max Weber, Milton Friedman, Joseph Schumpeter, and Friedrich Hayek, while engaging with archival collections from the National Archives of India, the Archives nationales (France), the German Federal Archives, and the Vatican Secret Archives. Collaborations link programs at the Oxford University Press, the Cambridge University Press, the Royal Historical Society, the Economic History Association, and the Historians of Britain. The centre leverages datasets produced by projects like the Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, the Maddison Project, the Clio-Infra Project, and the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Founded to bridge intellectual traditions associated with scholars such as E. P. Thompson, Fernand Braudel, Peter Laslett, John Hicks, and Thomas S. Ashton, the centre emerged amid institutional developments at the University of Cambridge in the wake of initiatives led by academics connected to the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, the Judge Business School, and the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Its early life intersected with debates sparked by publications from Piketty, reactions to events like the 2008 financial crisis, and comparative historical studies involving the Russian Revolution, the Ottoman Empire, and the Qing dynasty.
Research strands examine periods and topics such as the Victorian era, the Georgian era, World War I, World War II, decolonization, globalization, industrialization, and banking crises through seminars drawing on scholars from the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, the Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge, the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, and the Yale Department of History. Graduate training integrates supervision involving supervisors linked to the Trinity College, Cambridge, King's College, Cambridge, St John's College, Cambridge, and external visiting fellows from the Institute for Advanced Study, the European University Institute, and the German Historical Institute London. Programmatic work engages comparative projects on phenomena such as the Great Irish Famine, the Great Leap Forward, the Mexican Revolution, the Indian Independence Movement, and the Chinese Civil War.
The centre produces working papers, monographs, edited volumes, and digital projects with partners including Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Routledge, Cambridge Histories Online, and the Economic History Review. Major projects have addressed topics like the Atlantic slave trade, the Transatlantic economy, currency regimes exemplified by the Gold standard, fiscal regimes illustrated by the South Sea Company, and comparative studies of welfare systems inspired by analyses of the Poor Law Amendment Act 1834 and the New Deal. Digital initiatives have built datasets interoperable with the Human Mortality Database, the Project Gutenberg, and the World Bank historical indicators.
Institutional links extend to colleges and centers such as King's College, Cambridge, the Cambridge Judge Business School, the Wadham College, Oxford, the Institute of Historical Research, the British Academy, the Royal Society, the Wellcome Trust, and funding bodies like the Leverhulme Trust. International partnerships include collaborations with the Harvard Kennedy School, the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, the University of Chicago, the Columbia University, the Stanford University humanities centers, the Max Planck Institute for History, and networks like the European Research Council.
Affiliated scholars and visiting fellows have included intellectuals and historians associated with names and institutions like Niall Ferguson, Diarmaid MacCulloch, Simon Schama, Margaret MacMillan, Kenneth Pomeranz, Perry Anderson, Eric Hobsbawm, Christopher Bayly, Jack Goldstone, Timothy Garton Ash, Anne Applebaum, Adam Tooze, Avner Greif, Alice Clark, Geoffrey Elton, J. M. Keynes, and contemporary economists and historians tied to the London School of Economics, Princeton University, Harvard University, Yale University, Stanford University, and the University of Chicago.
The centre organizes lecture series, conferences, workshops, and public seminars that bring together speakers connected to events and institutions such as the Royal Institution, the British Museum, the National Gallery, the Institute of Historical Research, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and international forums like the World Economic Forum. Signature events have included symposia on themes comparable to the Global Financial Crisis (2007–2008), the European sovereign debt crisis, and retrospectives on the Industrial Revolution and the Age of Discovery, often co-hosted with partners from the British Library, the Institute of Development Studies, and the International Monetary Fund.
Category:University of Cambridge institutes