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Gabriel Geisler Mesevage

Dr Gabriel Geisler Mesevage

Lecturer in British Economic History post-1750

Research interests

  • History

Biography

I joined King’s in 2019 as a Lecturer. Before joining I was a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse, and a Marie-Curie Early Stage Research Fellow in the Department of Economics at the University of Oxford.

I completed my PhD in History at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva in 2016.

Research interests and PhD supervision

  • Financial history
  • British economic history in the 19th century
  • Financial press/credit rating agencies
  • Social networks

My research focuses on 19th-century financial history. In particular the financial press, rating agencies, bubbles and crises. I have written on the British railway mania and the historical development of credit rating.

Teaching

I teach Modern British financial and economic history at undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Selected publications

  • Social Networks in Economic History: Opportunities and Challenges”, Explorations in Economic History, 74, 2019 (with Rui Esteves).
  • “Network Analysis” in Blum & Colvin (eds.) An Economist’s Guide to Economic History, London: Palgrave, 2018.
  • “The Opaque Origins of the Business of Transparency: Mercantile Agencies, the Law and the Lawyers (1851-1916)”, Enterprise & Society, Vol. 15, No. 2, 2014 (with Marc Flandreau).
  • “The Separation of Information and Lending and the Rise of Rating Agencies in the United States (1841-1907)”, Scandinavian Economic History Review, Vol. 62, No. 3, 2014 (with Marc Flandreau).

Research

academic books
King's Contemporary British History

The study of Contemporary British History goes back to the 1960s, and was consolidated with the establishment of the Institute of Contemporary British History in 1985 by (Sir) Anthony Seldon and (Lord) Peter Hennessy. The Institute moved to King’s College London in 2010, and the new King’s Contemporary British History builds on this by creating a larger and more diverse enterprise, building on that distinguished tradition.

Research

academic books
King's Contemporary British History

The study of Contemporary British History goes back to the 1960s, and was consolidated with the establishment of the Institute of Contemporary British History in 1985 by (Sir) Anthony Seldon and (Lord) Peter Hennessy. The Institute moved to King’s College London in 2010, and the new King’s Contemporary British History builds on this by creating a larger and more diverse enterprise, building on that distinguished tradition.