The city of Gdańsk has a historical centre with several striking buildings which can make any historian’s heart beat faster, even with the knowledge that they were partly rebuilt after the destructions of World War II. Most interesting from the perspective of early technology and industry are the magnificent fifteenth-century Crane along the River Motława,… Continue reading Danzig’s Great Mill and the renown of its master mill builder
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Interventions in the food market: public grain stocks in pre-industrial Europe
For the last seventy years or so people in western Europe have been able to rely on the free market to provide them with a great variety of foodstuffs at affordable prices. Currently, however, food prices in the supermarkets of western European countries are rising dramatically and in some cases customers encountered empty shelves. Households… Continue reading Interventions in the food market: public grain stocks in pre-industrial Europe
The Evolution of the Project
In this first blog post, Principal Investigator Professor Mike Braddick reflects on the evolution of the idea for ‘The Politics of the English Grain Trade’ from the 1980s to now. For me, this project has been a long time in the making. In the later 1980s I did a PhD on tax resistance based around… Continue reading The Evolution of the Project
The Politics of the English Grain Trade, 1314-1815 