This course is available on the BSc in Economic History, BSc in Economic History and Geography, BSc in Economic History with Economics, BSc in Economics and Economic History and BSc in Economics with Economic History. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is available on the BSc in Economic History, BSc in Economic History and Geography, BSc in Economic History with Economics, BSc in Economics and Economic History and BSc in Economics with Economic History. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course students.
This course is delivered through a combination of classes and lectures totalling a minimum of 40 hours across Michaelmas Term and Lent Term.?This year, while we are planning for most teaching to be delivered in-person, it is possible that some or all ?may have to be delivered virtually. ?This course includes a reading week in Week 6 of Michaelmas and Lent Term.
Students will be expected to produce 1 essay and 1 presentation in the MT and 1 essay and 1 presentation in the LT. Students are expected to write two essays or equivalent pieces of written work. Students are expected to participate in group presentations of specific readings to the rest of the class twice during the course.
Broadberry, Stephen, Campbell, Bruce M.S., Klein Alexander, Overton, Mark and van Leeuwen, Bas (2015) British Economic Growth, 1270-1850, Cambridge University Press, chapters 1, 10. De Moor, Tine, and van Zanden, Jan Luiten (2010) ?Girl Power: The European Marriage Pattern and Labour Markets in the North Sea Region in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Period,? Economic History Review, 63, pp. 1-33. De Vries, Jan (2008) The Industrious Revolution: consumer behaviour and the household economy, 1650 to the present, Cambridge University Press Muldrew, Craig (2011) Food, energy and the creation of industriousness, Cambridge University Press Humphries, Jane (2010) Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution, Cambridge University Press. Horrell, Sara, Jane Humphries and Jacob Weisdorf (2019) Family standards of living over the long-run, England 1280-1850', Past and Present, forthcoming June Purvis (ed) (1997)?Women's History, Britain 1850-1945. An introduction,?Routledge
Exam (60%, duration: 2 hours) in the summer exam period. Essay (30%, 3000 words) in the LT. Class participation (10%). The summative essay chosen from a selection of topics covered during the course. While we hope to be in a position to offer in-person assessment, it remains possible that examination for this module will be online.