Patrick Wallis is a British historian who writes about the economic, social and medical history of Britain and Europe between 1500 and the present. He studied at York and Oxford. Since 2004, he has been a member of the Department of Economic History at the London School of Economics and is now Professor of Economic History. He is interested in understanding the way in which people gain skills, particularly through apprenticeship. He has published books and articles on guilds, crafts, plague, medicine, wages and other structural changes.
Books in order of publication:
Medicine and the Market in England and its colonies, c. 1450- c. 1850 – 2007
London Inhabitants Outside the Walls, 1695 – 2010
The Market for Skill: Apprenticeship and Economic Growth in Early Modern England – 2025
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