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A Fashionable Business

Sarah Birt

Art supplies in London: the colour shops of Elizabeth Moseley and Anna Barnes 2 Apr 2021
Mary Pyke (fl. 1669 – 1709) 8 Mar 2021
A Hosier near Hungerford Market: Ann Hodgson and her Partnership in Trade 1 Mar 2021

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Dr Anne L. Murphy

Anne Murphy

How did organisations adapt to change in the 18th and 19th century: Lessons from... 27 Dec 2018
A Page in the Life of Elizabeth Jeake: unfeigned love among mercantile matters 27 Dec 2018
Sharing skills: baking, curating, presenting and surviving a sharknado apocalypse! 20 Feb 2018

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Economic Growth in History

Nuno Palma's economic and political history blog

Nuno Palma

Call for papers: Quantifying the Long Run History of Africa 25 Jul 2023
Visit to the Bolton Steam Museum 28 Jun 2023
Program for the conference: “Productivity Revolutions: Past and Future” 27 Apr 2023

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economy

Forms of Labour

Gender, Freedom and Experience of Work in the Preindustrial Economy

Project blog

Experimenting with the Database 12 Jan 2023
Schrödinger’s Training Clause: The Puzzles of Pauper Apprenticeships, Part II 29 Sep 2021
The Missing 1550 Act: The Puzzles of Pauper Apprenticeships, Part I 15 Jul 2021

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Gender and Work in Early Modern Europe

Group blog

CFP: Early Modern Women’s Mobilities 2 Jul 2018
Call for Papers: New Perspectives in Feminist Labour History 13 Jun 2018
CFP: Migration and Gender : relationships, economic resources and institutions in... 23 May 2018

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Global Encounters

Fashion, culture and foreign textile trade in Scandinavia, 1500-1650

Paula Hohti

ERC Consolidator Grant for my new research project 2 Feb 2017
Call for papers: Global Consumption in European Cities (1500–1850) 13 Oct 2015
Research job available 25 May 2015

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hannahbarkerhistory

Hannah Barker

Forgers and shopkeepers: in memory of Sarah Green 17 May 2021
Family and Business During the Industrial Revolution 19 Oct 2019
Historical Guide to the Apprentice House, Quarry Bank 19 Oct 2019

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Hearth Tax Online

Householders in late 17th century England

Project blog

Hatfield Tax Records 24 Nov 2022
The Norfolk Hearth Tax Exemption Certificates 17 Aug 2022
Mapping the Hearth Ta 13 May 2022

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History of Finance

Group blog

Making Sense of Finance: research videos 7 Mar 2021
Making Sense of Finance: research videos 7 Mar 2021
Online Conference: Making Sense of Finance 25 Feb 2021

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Intoxicants and Early Modernity

England, 1580–1740

Project blog

Event Report: Intoxicants and Politics Past and Present 30 May 2017
Intoxicants and Empire c.1600-1800: Space and Material Culture 17 Apr 2017
Project Event: Intoxicants and Politics Past and Present 8 Sep 2016

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Middling Culture

The cultural lives of the middling sort, writing and material culture 1560-1660

Project blog

How to approach reconstructing an Elizabethan/Jacobean room in 8 (not so easy) steps 6 Sep 2022
Book a Visit a Virtual Elizabethan/Jacobean Room (National Gallery X)… 17 Aug 2022
Introducing the virtual early modern parlour 28 Apr 2022

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Mr. Pepys' Small Change

17th Century Tokens from London

Anthony Joyce at The Three Stags Inn at Holborn Conduit 20 Nov 2021
Edward Brent of Pickle Herring in Southwark 20 May 2018
John Empson at the sign of the Crown and Beacon in Duke’s Place 24 Sep 2016

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Tea in Eighteenth-Century Britain

History of Tea Project at Queen Mary University of London

Project blog

‘Milk in First’: a miffy question. 11 May 2017
Micro-brew 15 Apr 2017
Notes towards the Cultural History of Bohea 12 Jul 2016

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The Adverts 250 Project

An Exploration of Advertising in Colonial America 250 Years Ago This Week

Carl Robert Keyes

September 26 26 Sep 2023
September 25 25 Sep 2023
Slavery Advertisements Published September 25, 1773 25 Sep 2023

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The Spinning Project

Spinning in the era of the spinning wheel, 1400-1800

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