Publications and Events

Upcoming Events

  • 25 November 2025, Economic and Social History of the Premodern World Seminar, IHR London – Braddick, ‘The business of grain milling in England, c. 1540-1800’

Past Events

  • 4 November 2025, Graduate Seminar in History 1680-1850, University of Oxford – Braddick, ‘The business of grain milling in England, c. 1540-1800’
  • 12-14 November 2025, Conference on Frisian Humanities in Leeuwarden – Frankot, ‘Cross-border connections between the Frisian towns and Kampen in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth century’
  • 28 July-1 August 2025, World Economic History Congress 2025 – Winter, part of panel ‘Mills And Milling In Early Modern Europe’.
  • 9-10 June 2025, Project Conference – The Comparative History of the Grain Trade, c.1500-1800 – held at All Souls College, Oxford.
  • 27-28 May 2025, The People vs Structures Conference, Nijmegen – Frankot, ‘Coping with grain crises in the late medieval Netherlands’ 
  • 26-29 March 2025, European Social Science History Conference – Project panel session ‘Grain and Politics’
  • 10 March 2025, Early Modern Women and the Courts, University of Sheffield – Winter, ‘Women and the Milling Industry: Evidence from the Exchequer’
  • 17-18 October 2024, What is politics? En ville à la campagne. TELEMMe, Aix-Marseille – Winter, ‘The politics of grain milling: the urban and rural management of food resources in early modern England’
  • 8-10 July 2024, Social History Society Annual Conference – Winter, The Millers’ Tales: the socio-economic world of millers in England, 1315-1815′
  • 3 July 2024, Exploiting Land, Labour, and Technology in Britain’s Economic Development, 1660-1800 – Winter, ‘Speculation, commercialisation, and improvement: the market for mills in early modern England’
  • 3 April 2024, Popular Knowledge of the Law in Early Modernity, St John’s Oxford – Winter, ‘Through ‘advice & promocion’: legal knowledge and mill disputes in the Court of Exchequer’
  • 12-13 April 2024, British Agricultural History Society Spring Conference, The University of Nottingham – Winter, ‘The Politics of Grain Milling: the milling industry in England, 1315-1815’
  • 18 October 2023, Uppsala Higher Seminar in Agrarian History at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (online) – Winter, ‘Mills and the milling industry in early modern England’
  • 12-14 September 2023, British East-Asian Conference for Historians (BEACH) – Winter, ‘The political economy of mills, England 1315-1815’
  • 2 June 2023, Institute of Historical Research Economic and Social History of the Early Modern World, 1500-1800 – Berlandi, ‘A quantitative analysis of the English and Baltic grain trade’.
  • 9 May 2023, Food for Thought: Research ‘Bites’ from the Body & Mind Hub – Winter, ‘The politics of grain milling and the economy: mills and the brewing trade’, part of the University of Sheffield History Department’s weekly seminar series.
  • 12-15 April 2023, European Social Science History Conference, Gothenburg – Dijkman and Berlandi, ‘The discourse on grain and bread in north-German and Baltic cities, late 18th – early 19th century’.
  • 9-11 March 2023, Renaissance Society of America, San Juan – Winter, ‘Custom, community, and conflict: mills and milling in everyday life in early modern England’ on the panel Homestead to Landscape: New Perspectives on Everyday Life in Early Modern England
  • 14 February 2023, Political Economy Tokyo Seminar (online) – Winter, ‘Mills, milling and England’s political economy’
  • 1 January 2023, Medieval Finance Network workshop, Mannheim – Berlandi, “Methods in Land-Assessment in Late Medieval Scotland”
  • 25 September 2022, Sheffield Wheat Experiment Threshing Day – Braddick and Winter, ‘Mills, millers, morals and markets: the politics of the English grain trade, 1315-1815’: learn more about the event here.
  • 7 July 2022, Merchant Manuscript Cultures – Berlandi, “Cities as Centres of Innovation? A Reassessment of the Commitment Problem in Commercial Transactions”

Publications

  • Braddick and Winter, ‘Mill Litigation in the Equity Side of the Exchequer, c.1558 to 1815’, The Local Historian 55 (Nov, 2025)
  • Berlandi, ‘Market Positioning over Productivity: Rethinking England’s Eighteenth-Century Grain Export Boom’, The English Historical Review (2025) https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceaf139
  • Winter, ‘Millers’ Tales’, History Today (April 2025), pp. 22-24
  • Winter, ‘The Moral Economy of Food’, History Workshop Digital Magazine. Link here.