The South Sea Bubble of 1720 is often cited as an example of a fraud. It is often stated that the South Sea Company had not interest in, or aptitude for, the slave trade. It had been granted the monopoly right to ship slaves to the Spanish-held Americas. This paper uses shipping data to show...

Economic history is an important sub-discipline of Economics.2 Women in economic history face similar challenges to their female colleagues in mainstream economics. In the UK, economic history has been affected by government policies aimed at evaluating research. The Research Assessment...

The South Sea Bubble of 1720 has commonly been thought of as a disaster for the stock market and Georgian society. Recent revisionist work has queried whether the economic dislocation was indeed severe. The South Sea Company itself continued to trade in slaves with the Royal Navy’s assistance....