Sunday 2 April

Academic Session V (8 parallel sessions)

ASVA:   Power Fellows: Women and the Law (Women’s Committee Session)
(chair: Judy Stephenson) (Ramphal 0.12)

1.Becoming Blanche Leigh: Risk-taking in fin de siècle Britain and France
Jennifer Aston (Northumbria University)

2.Voices from the margins: Locating women in the Welsh Court of Great Sessions
Angela Muir (University of Leicester)

3.Gender and homicide in 14th-century Yorkshire
Stephanie Brown (University of Cambridge)

4.Freedom and working lives of young English women: A re-evaluation of the early modern labour laws
Charmian Mansell (University of Cambridge)

ASVB:    Entrepreneurship
(chair: ) (Ramphal 0.14)

1.Shops and shopkeepers in early 19th-century Wales: The slow development of a market economy?
Frances Richardson (University of Oxford)

2.Amateurs to fat cats? British CEOs in the 20th century
Philip Fliers, John Turner, Michael Aldous & Robin Adams (Queen’s University Belfast)

3.The missing entrepreneurs? The diversity of female entrepreneurship in the Netherlands, 1900-2020
Selin Dilli (Utrecht University)

4.International Clan linkage, and SMEs in Coastal China, 1978-2000
Hanzhi Deng (Fudan University) & Sijie Hu (Renmin University of China)

ASVC:    Social Networks
(chair: Helen Paul) (Ramphal 1.03)

1.Check your privileges: An ancient legal institution and its ability to administer scarce resources
Jasper Kunstreich (Max Planck Institute for Legal History / History of Science)

2.A company as a solution for networks? The Anglo-Dutch Atlantic in the 17th century
Joris van den Tol (University of Cambridge)

3.Putting credit on the map: Lending and borrowing in the Antwerp region, 1835-1900
Ruben Peeters & Rogier van Kooten (University of Antwerp)

ASVD:   Political Economy
(chair: Claudia Rei) (Ramphal 1.04)

1.Contact, threat, and violence during political upheaval: Anti-Jewish pogroms in the 1905 Russian Revolution
Steven Nafziger (Williams College), Paul Castañeda Dower (University of Wisconsin), Scott Gehlbach (University of Chicago) & Dmitrii Kofanov (Universitat de Barcelona)

2.Self-government and education: Evidence from a historical quasi-experiment in Italy
Vitantonio Mariella (University of Bergamo), Mauro Rota & Michele Postigliola (Sapienza University of Rome)

3.The roots of the modern American Presidential campaign
Franciso Pino (University of Chile) & Laura Salisbury (York University)

4.Brexit and the Blitz: Conflict, collective memory, and Euroscepticism
Eric Melander (University of Birmingham)

ASVE:    Historical National Accounts
(chair: Leandro Prados de la Escosura) (Ramphal 1.13)

5.Regional variation of GDP per head within China, 1080-1850: Implications for the Great Divergence debate
Stephen Broadberry (University of Oxford) & Hanhui Guan (Peking University

6.The pre-industrial GDP of the European regions: A proxy-based approach
Kerstin Enflo (Lund University), Anna Missiaia (University of Gothenburg) & Joan Rosés (London School of Economics)

7.Irish regional GDP since Independence
Seán Kenny (University College Cork) & Alan de Bromhead (Queen’s University Belfast)

8.European business cycles, 1350-2000
Jason Lennard (London School of Economics) & Stephen Broadberry (University of Oxford)

ASVF:    Charity and Health Care
(chair: Romola Davenport) (Ramphal 1.15)

1.Charity, welfare community, and health care institutions in late modern Lombardy
Riccardo Semeraro & Giovanni Gregorini (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore)

2.Taking care of a great hospital: The financial resources for the Ca’ Granda Hospital of Milan, 19th-20th centuries
Giuseppe De Luca, Marcella Lorenzini (Università degli Studi di Milano) & Matteo Landoni (University of Glasgow)

3.Fundraising appeals for hospitals in Great Britain and Northern Ireland after the 1946-48 NHS Acts
Rosemary Cresswell (University of Strathclyde)

4.Repugnant to a civilised community: Charitable funding in the early NHS
Bernard Harris (University of Strathclyde)

ASVG:   Public Finance in Late Medieval Europe
(chair: Francesco Guidi Bruscoli) (Ramphal 2.41)

1.The libri summarum, between budgets and accounting control: Documentary strategy and urban accounting in the commune of Bologna at the end of the 13th century
Marco Conti (Université de Bordeaux Montaigne)

2.Between dynastic ambition and public weal: Controlling military expenses in the 15th-century Burgundian Low Countries
Michael Depreter (University of Oxford)

3.The control of the royal fiscal estate in the Crown of Aragon: The ‘Compartiment de Sardenya’, 1358
Fabrizio Alias (University of Sassari – PRIN 2017 “LOC-GLOB”)

4.The Livro do Almoxarifado de Coimbra: A record of the fiscal system of the Portuguese crown, 1395
Rui Pedro Neves (Universidade de Coimbra)

ASVH:   Wages and Wage Structure
(chair: ) (Ramphal 3.41)

1.The decline of Venice: myth or reality? New evidence from real wages, 1380-1797
Tancredi Buscemi (University of Perugia) & Leonardo Ridolfi (University of Siena)

2.Real wages of labourers and craftsmen in the Czech lands during the price revolution: 1540-1620
Roman Zaoral (Charles University)

3.‘Of money, spelt, and one acre of field’: Rural teachers’ wages in early modern Switzerland, 1771-99
Gabriela Wuethrich (University of Zurich)

4.Wages in white-collar jobs: New evidence from microdata on Swedish primary school teachers in 1890
Gabriele Cappelli (University of Sienna) & Johannes Westberg (University of Groningen)

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