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Sebastian is an MPhil student in Economic and Social History and supervised by Leigh Shaw-Taylor. He recently completed an undergraduate degree in History at the University of Cambridge (2008-2011). In the considerably more distant past (1985-1991), Sebastian completed a BSc and MSc in Physics at the University of Utrecht. In between these studies, he worked in research at the Institute of Applied Physics in Delft (1991-1993), as a petroleum engineer with Shell Exploration and Production in Aberdeen (1993-1995) and as a strategy consultant with OC&C Strategy Consultants in Rotterdam (1995-2008). Sebastian’s MPhil research contributes to the (much) larger ‘Occupational Structure of Britain c.1379-1911’ project in Cambridge. This project is in the process of fundamentally challenging the traditional view of the British industrial revolution as a structural shift in employment from agriculture to manufacturing. However, the project’s results are based on aggregates of principal occupations only whereas, critics argue, the prevalence of secondary sources of income (by-employments) in the early modern period makes this problematic. Sebastian’s research addresses this issue of by-employments, using an innovative, quantitative approach based on probate inventories which he developed in his undergraduate research, and was successfully applied there to correct the occupational structures of eighteenth century Cheshire and Lancashire. In the MPhil, the scope will be widened geographically to the whole of England, and temporally to the entire early modern period. As an added bonus to being strategically important for the 'Occupational Structure' project, this will hopefully also generate a new and quantitative basis for testing critical assumptions about preindustrial by-employment that underlie the influential economic-historical theories of Proto-Industrialisation and the Industrious Revolution.’
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