Connell Lecture 2020-2021
A respectable living and women’s work: England 1260-1860
Professor Jane Humphries
Friday 4 June, 3PM-5PM (Dublin Time)
Professor Jane Humphries
Friday 4 June, 3PM-5PM (Dublin Time)
Jane Humphries is Centennial Professor of Economic History, London School of Economics and Political Science, and Emeritus Professor of Economic History and Fellow of All Souls College, University of Oxford.
Professor Humphries’ research interests include labour markets, industrialization and the links between the family and the economy. She has published extensively on wages, the family, the standard of living and the history of women's work.
Her monograph, Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution (CUP, 2010), was awarded the Gyorgi Ranki Biennial Prize by the Economic History Association in 2011. It was made into a BBC4 documentary.
Professor Humphries has edited the Economic History Review, and been President of the Economic History Society (UK) and Vice-President of the Economic History Association (US).
About the Connell Lecture
The Connell Lecture is delivered annually as a plenary lecture to the Economic and Social History Society of Ireland. The series is named in honour of the late Kenneth H. Connell (1917–73), professor of economic and social history at Queen's University Belfast. Connell's seminal work was The Population of Ireland, 1750–1845 (1950), where he considered population growth in a pre-industrial society and advanced a controversial thesis for Ireland's peculiar demographic history involving marriage patterns.
Professor Humphries’ research interests include labour markets, industrialization and the links between the family and the economy. She has published extensively on wages, the family, the standard of living and the history of women's work.
Her monograph, Childhood and Child Labour in the British Industrial Revolution (CUP, 2010), was awarded the Gyorgi Ranki Biennial Prize by the Economic History Association in 2011. It was made into a BBC4 documentary.
Professor Humphries has edited the Economic History Review, and been President of the Economic History Society (UK) and Vice-President of the Economic History Association (US).
About the Connell Lecture
The Connell Lecture is delivered annually as a plenary lecture to the Economic and Social History Society of Ireland. The series is named in honour of the late Kenneth H. Connell (1917–73), professor of economic and social history at Queen's University Belfast. Connell's seminal work was The Population of Ireland, 1750–1845 (1950), where he considered population growth in a pre-industrial society and advanced a controversial thesis for Ireland's peculiar demographic history involving marriage patterns.
