The History and Political Economy Research Group brings together scholars who use the interpretative methods of political economy to conduct historical enquiry, and/or work on historical material to investigate political economy questions. The group is methodologically diverse encompassing historians, political scientists, economists and political theorists.
Research areas
- General political and economic history
- History of economic thought
- History of democracy
- Business/entrepreneurial history
- Collating and using historical data
Upcoming events
3 October
Molley Shaffa (Senior Advisor to the Deputy Minister of Budget at the Ministry of Finance and Development Planning in Liberia): Financial history workshop
6 October
Half-day conference with keynote by Scott Gehlbach (Chicago)
24 October
Mikolaj Malinowski (Groningen): Incredible Commitment: Oligarchy and state failure in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
14 November
Nora Yitong Qiu (Oxford) and Xiaoyun Tang (KCL): Seizing the pawn: a social network analysis of confiscation practices in late Imperial China (1700-1912)
22 November
Tiago Mata (UCL) (joint with department seminar): Radical expectations: how the New Left changed economics
5 December
Gabriel Leon (KCL): The great reform act
Semester 2
23 January
Pavi Suryanarayan (LSE): State capacity/ethnic politics
6 February
Dmitry Ismagilov (UCL): Serfdom in Russia
13 February
Coskun Tuncer (UCL): State capacity in the Ottoman Empire
28 February
Peter Wilson (Oxford) (joint with department seminar): Fiscal-military state
12 March
Iain Sharpe (KCL alumni): A new day has dawned': ending Conservative electoral dominance in Britain from Campbell-Bannerman to Blair
26 March
Cléo Chassonnery: History of economic thought
Group lead
Lecturer