Seminar Series

Wealth of Knowledge: New Research in Economic and Financial History is an online lunchtime seminar series bringing together academics at all career stages to share new works in Economic and Financial History.

Seminar 7: 4 February 2026

Speaker: Maria Zukovs (University of St. Andrews)

Topic: Wine, Books and the French Revolution: Dublin’s Economy, 1789-1794.

Seminar 8: 4 March 2026

Speaker: Dr Mabel Winter (University of Oxford)

Topic: A History of Goldsmith Bankers

Seminar 9: TBC

If you are interested in presenting your work, please contact andrew.mcdiarmid@ucd.ie

Past seminars: 

5 February 2025 – A Brief History of the Tontine
Speaker: Dr Andrew McDiarmid (UCD)
Topic: Dr McDiarmid discussed his monograph The Tontine: A History, examining the development of the scheme from the seventeenth to twentieth centuries.

5 March 2025 – Irish Female Investment in the Nineteenth Century
Speaker: Adam Kane (PhD Candidate, UCD)
Topic: Insights from his project Irish Women as Investors in the Financial Sphere, c.1820–1900.

2 April 2025 – The Religious Roots of Longevity Risk Sharing
Speaker: Prof. Moshe A. Milevsky (Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto)
Topic: Discussion of his monograph The Religious Roots of Longevity Risk Sharing.

8 October 2025 – Dark Matter Credit in Eighteenth-Century Ireland
Speaker: Dr Brendan Twomey (TCD)
Topic: An examination of informal and under-documented credit systems in eighteenth-century Ireland.

5 November 2025 – Business as Usual: The Commercial Lives of Irish Women
Speaker: Dr Antonia Hart (TCD)
Topic: Research findings and themes from her forthcoming monograph on nineteenth-century Irish women’s commercial activity.

3 December 2025 – English Assurance Tontines
Speaker: Dr Malcolm Smart
Topic: An overview of his research on English assurance tontines and their place within the broader tontine tradition.