Charles Read is Senior Tutor and Tutorial Fellow covering Economics and History at Regent's Park College, Oxford. He is an economic historian and historian of capitalism in Britain, Ireland and the British empire over the past two centuries. His research focuses on the political economy of the causes and consequences of economic slumps, financial crises and famines, as well as the contributions made by British religious non-conformity to economic thought.
His most recent books include The Great Famine in Ireland and Britain’s Financial Crisis (2022) and Calming the Storms: The Carry Trade, the Banking School and British Financial Crises since 1825 (2023). My next monograph, Gentlemanly Capitalism, the 1847 Financial Crisis and the British Empire, is under contract with Oxford University Press. My research has won four major academic prizes: the International Economic History Association’s prize for the best dissertation in nineteenth-century economic history, as well as the Thirsk-Feinstein PhD Dissertation Prize, the T.S. Ashton Prize for the best Economic History Review article and the New Researcher Prize of the Economic History Society.
