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There is a new digitized manuscript on the website, from the Cambridge University Library MS Add.6707 vol. 9 by Sir Robert Forsyth Scott, Indians and Others Admitted to the Four Inns of Court, in chronological order. The searchable MS (with a transcription and footnotes), provides short biographical details on non-British entrants to the four Inns of Court during the latter half of the nineteenth century.

See R.F. Scott manuscript and introduction »

The Centre for History and Economics was established at King's College, University of Cambridge in 1991 with a grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to promote research and education in fields of importance for historians and economists. Its aim is to provide a forum in which scholars can address some of their common concerns, whether through the application of economic concepts to historical problems, through the history of economic and social thought, or through economic history.

The objective of the Centre is to encourage fundamental research in each of the two disciplines. It also encourages the participation of economists and historians in addressing issues of public importance. These include economic security, globalization in historical perspective, poverty and inequality, and the relationship between politics and religion. In July 2007, King's College, Cambridge and the Harvard University Faculty of Arts and Sciences established a Joint Centre for History and Economics.

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