Economic, Social and Cultural History

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Cambridge has been a leading centre for the study of economic and social history since the pioneering work of William Cunningham and Ellen McArthur in the 1890s on the industrial history of Britain. The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure, founded in 1964 to understand the family and community structures underlying economic and social history, was named by the Economic and Social Research Council as amongst the most important post-war contributions to British social science. The more recent development of cultural history is closely connected with social and economic structures.

Researchers of this theme study regions across the globe, from the medieval to the modern age. They are committed to collaborative work on economic, social and cultural themes and methodologies. The history of the economy, society and culture often being inseparable from the history of power and its uses and institutions, they also study policy and politics. They reach out to other disciplines including historical demography and geography, social and political sciences, literature, art history and divinity.

The research environment is diverse but there are particular strengths in: demographic history; history of the family; equality and welfare systems; long-term economic development; the history of economic thought; the relationship between the state, culture and economy; environmental history; gender; labour; financial and credit history.

The principal graduate training course is the Economic and Social Research Council-recognised MPhil in Economic and Social History, although many students receive training in economic, social and cultural history in one of the other specialised MPhil programmes.

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Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure

The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure was founded in 1964. In the fifty years since then, members of the Group have made a spectacular series of discipline-transformin… read more about Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure

Cambridge

Labour History Cluster

The Labour History Cluster purports to generate collaboration and debate on themes of labour, broadly defined. There are many entry points into this diverse realm of human experience, including histor… read more about Labour History Cluster

Cambridge

Joint Centre for History and Economics

The Joint Centre for History and Economics is based at Magdalene College and King's College, University of Cambridge, and at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University. It was established to… read more about Joint Centre for History and Economics

Cambridge

Centre for Financial History

The Centre for Financial History is based at Darwin College, Cambridge. Its core mission is to educate policy makers, researchers and the wider public in financial history. The Financial History Semi… read more about Centre for Financial History

Cambridge

History and Policy (H&P)

History and Policy is an organization that aims to enhance public policy by fostering a deeper understanding of history. It operates as a national network comprising over 500 academic historians and s… read more about History and Policy (H&P)

London