Economic History Society Internships at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
Internships have been awarded to:
2012
Jennifer Aston (University of Birmingham)
Jennifer has completed a three-month internship, funded by the Economic History Society, at the Winton Institute for Monetary History, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. This involved extracting data on leasehold prices, landlords and tenants from the leasehold books of the Calthorpe Estate in Birmingham and entering it into a database. This data forms part of the 'Property Rents and Prices in Urban England’ project with Professor Nicholas Mayhew and Dr Catherine Casson which will eventually link the evidence from nineteenth-century Birmingham with medieval and early modern Gloucester and Oxford.
Aaron Jaffer (University of Warwick)
Aaron has completed a three-month internship funded by the Economic History Society at the Winton Institute for Monetary History, Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. This involved working with shipping records held at the British Library relating to mutiny and shipwreck in the Indian Ocean. This research sheds light on the relationship between insurers, private traders and the East India Company in the early nineteenth century.
Deborah Thorpe (University of York)
Dr Thorpe worked on the Property Rents and Prices in Urban England project, alongside Professor Nick Mayhew and Dr Catherine Casson at the Winton Institute for Monetary History at the Ashmolean Museum. She examined and transcribed documents associated with Balliol College, University of Oxford, to extract information about the rental of property by the College from the 1400s up until the 1800s. It is hoped that this information will contribute to a wider study of urban rents, by the Winton Institute, over the years to come.
2011
Tim Crafter (University of Oxford)
Alice Dolan (Royal Holloway, University of London)
Lucy Moore (University of Oxford)
