MPhil in Economic and Social History — Faculty of History.

The Economic and Social History research theme brings together staff and postgraduate students with interests in economic and social history, very broadly defined. It cuts across chronological and geographical boundaries, aiming to reflect on conceptual and methodological issues that are shared by historians of different periods and places.

This research aims studying the mezzadria (share-cropping) system in the contado of Florence between the 15th and the 16th centuries and its impact on agricultural production, labour productivity and socio-economic inequalities. Mezzadria is a.

The Economic and Social History research group is focused on long-term developments in the world economy and societies, from the late Middle Ages to the present day. Our central research questions are: How do social and economic disparities arise between and within countries?

The Economic and Social History pathway represents the historical approach to the social sciences. As such, it encompasses a very wide array of intellectual approaches and brings the particular rigour and demands of historical enquiry to a range of social science methodologies. Specific programmes included in this pathway are MSc in Global Economy.

The History discipline covers a broad range of the political, social, economic and cultural history of Britain and Europe from the late middle ages to the 20th century, with additional expertise in colonial and post-colonial history.

The University’s economic and social historians host three research groups: material and visual cultures of the past; enlightenment and popular culture; and economic and social history. Career opportunities. Our PhD students develop a highly valued set of research and professional skills which enable them to go on to a wide variety of careers.

SQA Highers. The S5 Standard Academic Entry Requirements represent the grades which, if attained in addition to successfully meeting mandatory subject requirements and any non-aca.

T he discipline continues to thrive and today there are over thirty economic and social historians in the University, spread across a number of departments, but with a particular concentration in History, Economics and Geography. This probably constitutes the largest concentration of economic and social historians in the U.K.

Why choose economic history? Economic historians, more than economists, generally have better insight in the context and the events that influence economic developments. We explore how inequality and social mobility were shaped by past developments, how economic crises shaped outcomes, how different groups experienced economic change.

Nathan Nunn is the Frederic E. Abbe Professor of Economics at Harvard University. Professor Nunn was born in Canada, where he received his PhD from the University of Toronto in 2005. Professor Nunn’s primary research interests are in economic history, economic development, cultural economics, political economy and international trade.

Robert Capodilupo is a graduate student at the University of Cambridge, where he is pursuing a master’s degree in Economic and Social History, focusing on the history of the British opium trade. He recently graduated from Harvard University, where he received a bachelor’s degree magna cum laude in Government and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.