About the Quantitative History Webinar Series
The Quantitative History (QH) Webinar Series provides researchers, teachers, and students with an online intellectual platform to stay up to date with the latest research in the field. It promotes the dissemination of research findings and the interdisciplinary use of quantitative methods in historical research. Now entering its seventh year, the QH Webinar Series is co-organised by the Centre for Quantitative History at HKU Business School and the International Society for Quantitative History, in partnership with the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences. The series is substantially supported by the Areas of Excellence (AoE) Scheme of the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, China (Project No. AoE/B-704/22-R).
Flora, Cosmos, Salvatio: Pre-modern Academic Institutions and the Spread of Ideas
Transport and the Transmission of Plague across Settlements in Early Modern England
In this Quantitative History Webinar, Eric Schneider of the London School of Economics and Political Science will present a study using a novel dataset of aggregated monthly burial totals covering more than 4,000 parishes between 1557 and 1667. Eric and his co-authors measure how frequently settlements experienced plague epidemics and analyses the factors leading to outbreaks—particularly whether the transmission of plague was affected by the transport network.
Innovation Networks in the Industrial Revolution
Blood and Iron: Political Fragmentation in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean
In this Quantitative History Webinar, Patrick Fitzsimmons of the University of Pennsylvania will present a theory of how lowering the cost of doing violence around 1200 BCE contributed to political fragmentation across the Eastern Mediterranean.
Assortative Mating and the Industrial Revolution: England, 1754-2021
In this Quantitative History Webinar, Gregory Clark will demonstrate that strong marital sorting significantly increased the variability of social abilities in pre-industrial England with a genealogical database of 447,000 people in England 1600-2025, as well as 1.7 million marriage records 1837-2021.
A Century of Language Barriers to Migration in India
In this Quantitative History Webinar, James Fenske will explore in detail how cultural channels account for only a small part of the link from linguistic diversity to lower migration in India.