Professor Robert Millward
Robert Millward B.Sc. Econ., Ph.D
Professor Emeritus of Economic History
History Subject Group,
School of Arts, Histories and Cultures,
Lime Grove Building
University of Manchester Oxford Road Manchester M13 9PL.
Tel: 0161 439 2190
Fax: 0161 275 3256
Email robert.millward@manchester.ac.uk
RECENT PRESENTATIONS
For copies of papers, please request by email or refer to publication list below if already published.
1) “The Rise and Fall of State Enterprise in Western Europe 1945-90: Economics, Ideology or Technology?”, Session 73, International Economic History Congress, Helsinki, Finland, August 2006.
2) "Economic and Institutional Factors in Electricity Network Integration in Western Europe c.1900-50", University of Cambridge Quantitative History Seminar, January 2005.
3) "Institutional Change in State Enterprise in Western Europe 1945-90: economics or technology or ideology?", Conference on Transforming Public Enterprise in Europe and the Americas , University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain, September, 2004
4) "Economic and Institutional Factors in Electricity Network Integration in Western Europe c.1900-50", European Business History Conference, Barcelona, September, 2004.
5) "Regulation and ownership of public services in Europe: an historical perspective c.1830-1950", Milan State University Workshop on Public Services in Europe, June 2003
6) "European governments and the infrastructure industries c.1840-1914", presented in 2002 at the Universities of Cambridge, Carlos III de Madrid, Copenhagen, Liverpool, Manchester, Warwick.
7) Panel discussant for Milan State University Workshop on the British Privatisation Programme , May 2002.
8) "The Rise of the Service Sector" Conference on the Economic History of Britain, Guildhall University, London, December 2001.
9) "Infant Mortality in 19th century Britain" Annual Conference of the European Society for Evolutionary Political Economy, Berlin November 2000 and at Oxford University Economic History Seminar, October 2000.
RECENT AND FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS
Books
Private and Public Enterprise in Europe: Energy, telecommunications and transport c.1830-1990 , Cambridge University Press, 2005 (ISBN 13 978 0 521 83524-4 pp.xix + 351).
(Reviewed in Economic History Review Feb. 2006, Business History July 2006, Urban History May 2006, Business History Review Summer 2006 and on the web at EH.Net, Feb. 2006).
The Political Economy of Nationalisation in Britain l920-50 , Cambridge University Press, l995, pp.324 (ed. with J.Singleton)
Public and Private Ownership of British Industry l820-1990 , Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994, pp.373 (with J.Foreman-Peck)
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
“ Business and the State: Strategies and Technologies”, in G. Jones and J. Zeitlin (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Business History, Oxford University Press, 2007.
"Urban Water Supplies c.1820-1950: The Dilemma of the Private Companies", Histoire, Economie, Société, Special Issue in 2006/7 edited by Alexandre Fernandez.
"Cross Border Investment and Service flows in Network Industries in Western Europe c.1830-1980" and "Explaining Institutional change in the Networks: Britain in Comparative Perspective 1945-90" in J.Clifton, D.Fuentes and F.Comin (eds.), Transforming Public Enterprise in Europe and the Americas: Networks, Integration and Transnationalisation, Palgrave, 2006.
"Business and Government in Electricity Network Integration in Western Europe c.1900-50", Business History 48 (4), 2006, pp. 479-500.
"The Comparative Experience of Nationalisation and Denationalisation in France and the UK", Entreprises et Histoire, Vol. 37, 2004, pp.136-59.
"European governments and the infrastructure industries c.1840-1914", European Review of Economic History, 8(1), 2004, 3-28.
"The Economic Development and Impact of the Urban Infrastructure in Victorian Britain" in A.Giuntini, P.Hertner and G.Nunez (eds.), The Urban Infrastructure in Europe 1850-1950, Editorial Comares, University of Granada, Spain, 2004, ISBN,84-8444-912-2.
"Regulation and ownership of public services in Europe: an historical perspective c.1830-1950", Economia Pubblica, XXXIV(2), 2004, 25-39 (in Italian).
"The Rise of the Service Sector" in R Floud and P.Johnson (eds.), The Economic History of Britain since l700: Vol. III: Structural Change and Economic Growth 1939-99 , Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 238-66.
"The British Privatisation Programme: a long term perspective", Economia Pubblica, Volume XXXIII, Special Issue no.2, March-April, 2003, 155-68 (in Italian).
"The economic organisation and development of electricity supply in Britain in the 20th century" in A. Giuntini and G.Paoloni (eds.), La Citta Elettrica: Esperienze di elettrificazione urbana in Italia e in Europa fra ottocento e Novecento (Rome: Gius,laterza & Figli and ENEL, 2003), pp.99-124 ( in Italian).
"Nationalisation and Privatisation" Oxford Encyclopaedia of Economic History , Ed. J.Mokyr, Oxford University Press, 2003
"The Political Economy of Urban Utilities in Britain l840-l950", in Cambridge Urban History of Britain: Vol. III, ed. M Daunton, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
"From Economics to History" in P.Hudson (ed.) Aims and Ideas in Economic History, Cambridge 2001
"Choices for Town Councillors in Nineteenth Century Britain: Investment in Public Health and its Impact on Mortality' in H.Power and S .Sheard (Ed) Body and City : Histories of Public Health , Ashgate/Scholar, Press, 2001 (with F.Bell).
"Infant mortality in Victorian Britain: The mother as medium", Economic History Review, November 2001 (with F.Bell).
"State Enterprise in 20th Century Britain", in P.A.Toninelli, The Rise and Fall of State Owned Enterprise in the Western World (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
"Urban Government, Finance and Public Health in Victorian Britain" in R.Morris and R.Rodger (ed) Governance in British Towns and Cities, Ashgate 1999.
"Industrial Performance, the Infrastructure and Government Policy", in The British Industrial Decline, ed. J Dormois and M.Distenfass, Routledge, l999
"Economic Factors in the Decline of Mortality in late 19th and 20th Century Britain", European Review of Economic History 2(3), Dec. 1998 (with F.Bell).
"Public Health Expenditures and Mortality in England and Wales 1870-1914' Continuity and Change 13(2), July 1998 (with F.Bell).
"The l940s Nationalisations in Britain: Means of Production or Means to an End?", Economic History Review, Vol L, No.2, May l997, pp. 209-34.
"The Urban Fiscal Problem l870-l9l4: Government Expenditure and Finances in England and Wales", Economic History Review, Vol. XLVIII, No. 3, August l995, pp.501-35 (with S Sheard)
CURRENT RESEARCH AND GRANTS
The broad theme of my research is the analysis of long-run changes in economic organisation. It is currently concentrated on the economic history of Europe in the 19th and 20th centuries with particular attention to the relations between business and the state and to the growth of the public sector. It includes the fiscal problems of local and central government, the development of energy, telecommunications, water supply and transport, the control and ownership of public utilities. Some of that research was made possible by a recent Leverhulme Research Fellowship and emerged in my book published by Cambridge in 2005. A closely related area of research is population change, mortality, fertility and the role of public health spending. An earlier grant of £32,000 was obtained from the ESRC for a study of the finance of the local infrastructure in Britain, l870-19l4. The grant terminated in December l993 but work continued in public health and water supply. A grant of £53,000 was awarded by the Leverhulme Trust in l995 for a study of public health and mortality in England and Wales l870-l9l4. This was followed by grant of £42000 in 1997 for an analysis of the decline of infant mortality in Britain 1890-1914. Current work is focused on population changes and living standards in Europe in the first half of the 20th century, some of which will be published in the new Cambridge Economic History of Europe due in 2008.
Revised September 2006