2026-05-21
1 小时 23 分钟Welcome to the LSE Events Podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Get ready to hear from some of the most influential international figures in the social sciences.
And very good evening to you all.
Welcome to the LSE Department of Economic History's annual Epstein Lecture.
I'm Sarah Horrell.
I'm the head of department in the Economic History Department, and it's my privilege to chair this event.
This year, it's my great pleasure to welcome Professor Paula Govy to be our Epstein lecturer.
But before I properly introduce her, I want to give you some housekeeping notes, please.
This is a hybrid event, so we've got people online as well as obviously yourselves in the room.
So it is recorded, so please bear that in mind when you're asking questions and things later.
Paula will give the talk and we'll take questions at the end of the talk.
For those that are online, can you put your questions
into the chat and then we'll pick them up and read some of them out as we go through?
For those of you in the room, if you can wait until you've got the microphone before you ask any questions,
that would be most helpful.
People will come round with microphones for that.
So let me just say a little bit about this lecture series.
It's an annual lecture series that was established in the memory of Professor Larry Epstein.
He was a dearly missed colleague in the Department of Economic History.
He was a mentor to many economic historians.