Sheilagh Ogilvie is the Chichele Professor of Economic History at All Souls College, Oxford, and a Fellow of the British Academy. She holds degrees from the University of St Andrews (1979), Cambridge (1985), and Chicago (1992). She was successively Lecturer (1989), Reader (2000), and Professor of Economic History (2004) in the Faculty of Economics at the University of Cambridge, before moving to the University of Oxford in 2020. Sheilagh is the author of State Corporatism and Proto-Industry (