Join us for this round table discussion of the themes raised in Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson’s new book.
In their new book, Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution, which forms the basis of this event, Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson ‘follow the money’ to document in revealing detail the role of slavery in the making of Britain’s industrial revolution. Slavery played a crucial role in Britain’s development as a global superpower and the forces set in motion by this trade seeped into almost every aspect of the economy and society.
In case you missed it, a recording of this event is available here.
Meet our speakers and chair
Maxine Berg is Professor of History Emeritus at the University of Warwick. She has published extensively on the industrial revolution, on technology and industrialization and on the history of consumer culture. She was co-founder of the Warwick Eighteenth-Century Centre and founder of the Global History and Culture Centre at Warwick.
Nick Draper served as the first Director of the Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slave-ownership at University College London from its founding in 2016 until his retirement in August 2019. Between 2013 and 2015, he was co-director of the Structure and significance of British Caribbean slave-ownership 1763-1833 project at UCL, and was a founder-member of its precursor, the Legacies of British Slave-ownership project between 2009 and 2012.
Pat Hudson is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at Cardiff University. She has researched and published on industrialisation in Britain and Europe, pre-factory manufacturing, regional and structural change, financial and commercial innovations, historical methodology, and economic and social inequality.
Tirthankar Roy is Professor of Economic History in the Department of Economic History at LSE and is the author of India in the World Economy from Antiquity to the Present. His work tries to answer three questions: Is there a long-term pattern in Indian Capitalism? When did the big breaks occur in that pattern? Does history help us understand how capitalism in India works today?
Patrick Wallis is Professor of Economic History in the Department of Economic History, LSE. His research explores the economic, social and medical history of Britain and Europe from the sixteenth to eighteenth century. At present, he has two main interests – apprenticeship and human capital; and the transformation of healthcare in early modern England.
The Department of Economic History (@LSEEcHist) is concerned with economic change over time and is home to a huge breadth and depth of knowledge and expertise, ranging from the medieval period to the current century and covering every major world economy. Within that broad field faculty investigate such issues as why certain nations experience economic growth or fall behind, why economic inequality persists, and causes of population change and migration.
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