LSE, 'London's Future: A Scenario approach': Why London still has a great future, and the problems that will bring,' 29 October 2010
SPC conference on Re-engaging Employers on Saving for the Future: 'What is required to turn the tide?' 21 October 2010
Lund University Labour History Workshop Conference: "Explaining male-female wage differentials: evidence from Sweden in 1900", 14 October 2010
National Federation of Arms Length Management Organisations, Annual Conference, Manchester, Keynote speech, "Prospects for Social Housing" 15 July 2010
Modern Church Union Conference, Hoddesdon, Keynote opening address: "The Godliness of Economic Growth" 13 July 2010
European Summer School Training Course, Madrid: "Getting published"28 April. Department of Business, Innovation and Skills "Externalities and Spillovers" 30 June
"Post-World War II British Railsways: The unintended consequences of insufficient government intervention." in Helen Margetts, Christopher Hood and Perr 6 Paradoxes of Modernisation OUP 2010 forthcoming.
Economic History Association Meeting Teachers Breakfast: "The use and abuse of recording your lectures", 25 September
Chartered Institute of Housing, Annual Conference, Keynote speech; "Increasing the supply of housing," 24 June
Keele University, Regeneration Seminar: "Prospects for post industrial medium sized cities", 17 June
UPF/CREI conference on the value of new goods, Barcelona: "Falls in the prices of electrical goods in interway America", 22 May
Housing Studies Association Conference, Keynote speech: "How to reform the planning system", 16 April
Economic History Society Conference, Durham, "Can we explain why women are paid less? Evidence from Sweden in 1900! 27 March
National Housing Federation Annual Conference Plenary Session: "Prospects for social housing after the election", 11 March
Royal Society of Arts and Manufactures, Public Service Trust 2020 Commission: "A Radical agenda for housing", 4 March,
University of Birmingham, Department of Economics: "Agglomeration economies and British cities a century ago", 3 March
University of Sussex, Department of Economics: "Who became an apprentice?", 1 March
De Montfort University, Public Policy Department seminar series: "Why are houses so expensive, and what can be done?" 20 Jan 2010

2009

Harvard Economic History Workshop
University of Lund Economic History Seminar
FRESH conference, Copenhagen
St.Paul's Cathedral, London
The future of manufacturing conference, Business, Innovation and Skills Department, London
London Metropolitan University Economics Event
Public Service Programme End of Grant Event conference, London
Economics Seminar, Cardiff University
Economic History Workshop, European University Institute
Transport Economics Group Conference, London
Regeneration Seminar, Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam joint seminar
Royal Aeronautical Society Debate on the Future of Heathrow
Business History Unit, LSE
Said Business School, Oxford

2008

London, Civils Transport Conference
Porto, OECD regeneration pre-ministerial meeting
North Lambeth Economic and Social History Seminar
National Railway Museum, York
Northwestern University Economic History Workshop
Liverpool Anglican Cathedral, The future of Liverpool
Cambridge University, Modern Economic History Seminar
Lund University, Economic History Seminar
Queen's University, Belfast, Economics Workshop
World Cliometrics Society conference
BERR conference on the future of the North
Oxford University, Economic History Seminar
Northumbria University Business School workshop on urban regeneration
Centre for Market and Public Organisation Conference on Public Services

2007

Social Science History Association Meetings, Chicago
Royal Aeronautical Society Conference on multi-modal transport
Economic History Association Meetings, Austin
Anglo-Dutch conference on assessing public service quality evaluation, Rotterdam
Ohio State University Economics Workshop
Business History Conference, Cleveland
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Economic History Seminar
Public Services Programme Workshop, York
Carlos III Madrid, History Department
LSE Economics Department, International Economics Seminar
BERR lunchtime economics seminar series
2006 Keio Anthropometrics Workshop, Tokyo
Economic History Society Conference, Reading
International Economic History Association Conference, Helsinki
Association of Business History Conference, London

2006

Oxford University Economic History Seminar
UC Davis Economics Department
Stanford University Economics Department
Caltech Humanities and Social Science Department
UC Irvine Economics Department
UCLA Economics Department
Cambridge University Group for Population Studies
LSE Geography Department
Royal Holloway College Economics Department
2005 Oxford University Economic History Seminar
Linkoping University School of Management, Sweden (invited lecture)
National Railway Museum, York
Business History Unit, LSE
Berlin Colloquium in quantitative economic history

2005

Economic History Seminar, University of Oxford
Linkoping University School of Management, Sweden
National Railway Museum, York
Business History Unit, LSE

Selected publications

'Social Savings' Journal of Economic Surveys, Forthcoming 2010
'Cities, market integration and going to sea: stunting and the standard of living in early nineteenth century England and Wales' (with J Humphries) Economic History Review, Vol 62, Issue 2, pp. 458-478, May 2009
'Was Dick Whittington taller than those he left behind? Anthropometric measures, migration and the quality of life in early nineteenth century London' (with J Humphries) Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 46, Issue 1, January 2009, pp 120-131.
'Were British Railway Companies Well-Managed in the Early Twentieth Century?' (with N.F.R. Crafts and A. Mulatu) Economic History Review, November 2008, pp.842-66 and Corrigendum, Economic History Review 2010 forthcoming.
'Spatial Patterns of Development and the British Housing Market' (with H.G. Overman) Oxford Review of Economic Policy Spring 2008
'Time is Money: A Re-assessment of the Passenger Social Savings From Victorian British Railways', Journal of Economic History, 66, 3, 2006
'A British Industrial Success: Productivity in the Lancashire and New England Cotton Spinning Industries a Century Ago', Economic History Review, Vol LVI, No. 1, Feb 2003, pp. 90-117.
'Cotton Industry: Technological Change' in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History, Mokyr, J. (editor in chief), New York, 2003.
Piece rates and learning: understanding work and production in the New England textile industry a century ago, EH Working Paper, 72/03, 2003.
'Height and the High Life - What Future for a Tall Story?' (co-authored with Hans-Joachim Voth) in Economic Challenges of the 21st Century in Historical Perspective David, P. A., and Thomas, M. (eds) Routledge, 2004.
'New Answers to Old Questions: Explaining the Slow Adoption of Ring Spinning in Lancashire, 1880-1913', Journal of Economic History, 61, 2, June 2001
'Did smallpox reduce height? Stature and the standard of living in London, 1770-1873' (with Hans-Joachim Voth), Economic History Review, 1996.