Economic and Social History Research Group

Description

Economic and Social History – as a research and teaching unit at the University of Edinburgh – dates back to 1884 when Economic History was first taught here.

Economic and social historians now form a vibrant research group in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology. Whilst their interests cover a range of themes, chronological periods, and geographical places, they share the following:

• A commitment to interdisciplinarity, working in dialogue with other social sciences (including economics, political science, sociology, anthropology and criminology)
• A strong interest in producing research that is relevant and useful to wider audiences, including policy-makers and practitioners, and which contributes to wider public debate
• Enthusiasm for innovations in the use of sources, methods and approaches (both quantitative and qualitative, and including digital humanities)

The diverse topics and themes that members cover include: economic planning; natural resources and energy policy; time and economics; trade and tariffs; the transatlantic slave trade; war and conflict; inequality and living standards; craft economies; textiles and design; urban environments; maps and mapping; social networks; gender and sexuality; social history of the body, medicine and psychiatry; crime and policing; piracy and smuggling; oral culture and print culture; and sport, leisure and cinema-going.

The Group’s work has attracted significant recent funding from the AHRC, ESRC, Leverhulme Trust, Royal Society of Edinburgh, and Wellcome Trust. Members cover supervision for students at all levels, including PhD students across their wide range of research interests.

The Group runs seminar series in Economic and Social History and Histories of Gender and Sexuality and acts as a hub for Second World War Studies. Moreover, it is actively involved in the Economic History Society, the History of Psychiatry and Scottish Archives and other organisations and journals, including Social History and the SocialHistoryBlog.

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University of Edinburgh
Old College
South Bridge
Edinburgh
EH8 9YL