The Tawney Lecture
Professor Gianni Toniolo, 'Income distribution and growth in the
long run: do institutions matter?'
Address
Professor Geoffrey Richards, 'British national identity and the cinema
since 1945'.
New researcher sessions (to be announced)
Academic sessions (session organisers in parenthesis)
Retailers and consumers in 20th-century Britain (Dr M Winstanley)
Business history and the economics of industrial performance (Dr S
Bowden)
Pastoral landscape and society in the middle ages (Dr P Booth)
Comparative European social history (Prof M Blinkhorn)
Women's work (Dr E A M Roberts)
The origins and development of operational research in the UK (Dr M
Kirby)
Business networking in the industrial revolution (Dr R Pearson)
Manufacturing communities in industrialising Britain (Prof P Hudson)
The 'European Miracle' -- did Russia participate? (Dr P Gatrell)
Growth and development in Western Europe since 1945 (Prof W R Garside)
Eileen Power and the idea of economic history 1920-1940 (Dr M Berg)
The Scottish economy since 1945 (Prof A Slaven)
Art and the wealthy in 19th-century Britain (Prof C Harvey)
Ireland under the Union (Dr F Geary)
Commerce, credit and reputation in 17th- and 18th-century Europe (Dr C
Muldrew)
Field Trips
The Making of the Lake District Landscape (Dr A Winchester)
Cotton communities (Dr G Timmins)
Georgian Lancaster (Dr A White)
Registration/accommodation
Contact Oliver Westall, Economic History Society Conference, Dept of
Economics, The Management School, Lancaster University, Lancaster LA1 4YX
e-mail: o.westall@lancaster.ac.uk
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