Aaron Graham Memorial Lecture 2025 - Professor Pat Hudson
Join UCL History for Aaron Graham's Memorial Lecture with Professor Pat Hudson as our guest lecturer.
Aaron Graham Memorial Lecture 2025 - Professor Pat Hudson
10 Jun 2025, 17:30 – 20:00
Caribbean Investment and the Financialisation of the British Economy in the eighteenth century.
Change in the British economy of the long eighteenth century involved transformation of the institutions and practices of the national and international financial sector as a well as shifts in manufacturing and technology that have received much greater attention. Both were stimulated by Caribbean colonialism and the exploitation of enslaved Africans. Linking with Aaron Graham’s important research, this lecture will focus on finance. In particular we will consider the ways in which investment in plantation estates led to wider changes that encouraged the mobilisation of wealth in Britain for industrialisation and for the further expansion of Empire.
Image: Charles Goring of Wiston and an Unknown Attendant. ca. 1765. Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection.
Lecture: G6 Archaeology Lecture Theatre (5:30-6:30pm)
Reception: Archaeology Common Room (6:30-8pm)
The Aaron Graham Memorial Lecture is sponsored by the Economic History Society and UCL History. You can contribute to the lecture fund here.
Pat Hudson is Emeritus Professor of Economic History at Cardiff University, an Honorary Vice-President of the Economic History Society and a Fellow of the British Academy. She is a historian of the British economy and of industrialisation. Her most recent book, with Maxine Berg, is Slavery Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution (Cambridge, Polity 2023)