WINTON INSTITUTE FOR MONETARY HISTORY

Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford

 

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Research Fellows

 

Permanent Fellows

 

> Professor Nick Mayhew, Director

 

Professor Mayhew has worked on medieval and early modern monetary history with a special interest in prices and money supply in relation to GDP. He is also the Deputy Director (Collections) of the Ashmolean Museum.

 

Selected Publications:

  • 'Population, money supply and velocity of circulation in England, 1300-1700', Economic History Review , XLVIII (1995), 238-257.
  • 'Modelling medieval monetisation' in B. M. S. Campbell and R. H Britnell (eds.), A commercialising economy: England 1086-1300 (Manchester: 1995), 55-77.
  • With E. Gemmill, Changing values in Medieval Scotland: A study of prices, money and weights and measures (Cambridge: 1995)
  • Sterling: The rise and fall of a curency (London: 1999).

 

Contact

Telephone: +44 (0) 1865 278059

Fax: +44 (0) 1865 278057

email: nick.mayhew@ashmus.ox.ac.uk

 

 

 

> Catherine Casson

 

Catherine Casson received her PhD from the Department of History, University of York in 2009. Her thesis on ‘A Comparative Study of Prosecutions for Forgery in Trade and Manufacturing in Six English Towns, 1250 to 1400’ was supervised by Prof. Mark Ormrod and Dr. Sarah Rees Jones. She is currently developing her thesis into articles for submission to academic journals. A paper and presentation based on her thesis was awarded the Economic History Society’s New Researcher Prize.
 

Catherine was appointed Research Assistant for the European State Finance Database in 2009-2010 and Teaching Fellow in Medieval History at the School of History and Cultures, University of Birmingham in 2011.

 

Selected publications

  • With J. Fry and M. Casson, ‘Evolution or revolution? A study of price and wage volatility in England, 1200-1900’, RePEc working paper, available at
    http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/31518/1/MPRA_paper_31518.pdf (June 2011)
  • With J. Fry,  ‘Revolutionary change and structural breaks: A time series analysis of wages and commodity prices in Britain 1264-1913’ RePEc working paper (January 2011)

 

Contact

Email: catherine.casson@ashmus.ox.ac.uk

Telephone: +44 (0) 1865 278113

Fax: +44 (0) 1865 278057

 

> Nicholas Dimsdale

 

Main research interests: Monetary Economics and Quantitative Economic History

 

Selected Publications:

  • 'The Causes of Unemployment in Interwar Australia', Oxford Department of Economics Working Paper, 081 (2001).
  • [Book with Martha Prevezer] Capital Markets and Corporate Governance (Oxford: 1994).
  • 'Banks, Capital Markets and the Monetary Transmission Mechanism', Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 10/4 (1994).
  • 'A Model of the UK Economy in the Interwar Period', European Economic Review, 36/2-3 (1992).

Contact

email: nicholas.dimsdale@queens.ox.ac.uk

 

 

Temporary Fellows

 

> Lucy Moore

 

Main research interests: Anglo-Saxon coinage

 

Selected publications:

  • ''Clothing and Textiles in Early Anglo-Saxon Coinage', Studies in Early Medieval Coinage 3 (forthcoming)

Contact:

email: lajmoore@hotmail.co.uk