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The members of the Economic History Society offer their condolences to the family and friends of Professor Nick Crafts. Nick, who passed away on Friday 6 Oct, was president of the Society, 2004-7 and editor of the Society’s journal, 1999-2005. 1/2
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Congratulations to Amy Offner
@PennHistory
and to
@CC_Rosenthal
@UCBerkeley
for winning the
#EHS
2020 First Monograph Prize! All details here
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We are very happy to announce the launch of our new website. Among other things, the new site has updated grant & prize application processes, a search interface for The Economic History Review and is the new home of The Long Run Blog. Check it out here:
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A reminder that the Call for Papers for the 2024 EHS Conference is open!
The deadline for Academic Papers and Sessions and New Researcher Paper proposals is 18th September 2023.
The deadline for New Researcher Poster proposals is 22nd November 2023.
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Congrats to this year's EHS prize winners:
New Researcher Prize:
Louise Cormack (Lund)
Héctor Paredes (Paris School of Economics)
Iris Wohnsiedler (TCD)
New Researcher Poster Prize:
Kirsty Peacock (Oxford)
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'Economic History' articles (supplements from 'The Economic Journal') published between 1926 - 1940, have been newly-digitised and are now available through Oxford University Press. More information can be found here:
@OUPAcademic
@EJ_RES
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For PhD students & Postdocs - Weekly
#economichistory
drop-in conversations online, for Econ History grad students who are missing the informal campus chats. If you're interested in joining please register & we'll send more info & the schedule!
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latest from
#thelongrun
: 'The Long View on Epidemics, Disease and Public Health: Research from Economic History, Part C' - a piece by
@VincentGeloso
discussing Werner Troesken’s 'The Pox of Liberty'.
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from
#thelongrun
: "Disentangling the Effects of Technological and Organizational Changes During the Rise of the Factory: The Case of the Japanese Weaving Industry, 1905−1914" by Tetsuji Okazaki
@UTokyo_News
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The EHS Annual Conference 2024 call for papers is now open!
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We are pleased to announce that the EHS annual conference will be held at
@warwickuni
from the 9th to the 11th April 2021 -
#CFP
is now open, deadline for papers is 28 September, for posters 23 November
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Congratulations to Robin Adams
@QUBelfast
@QUCEHBelfast
for winning the 2020 Thirsk-Feinstein PhD Dissertation Prize! More information here:
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We're excited to welcome our delegates to the first day of the EHS Annual Conference at Queen's University Belfast
@QUBelfast
@QUCEHBelfast
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Tawney Lecture 2017 online! "India’s transition from a colonial economy" Prof. Bishnupriya Gupta
@warwickuni
#EHS
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Congrats to this year's EHS prize winners:
New Researchers Prize: Christian Vedel (University of Southern Denmark)
NR Poster Prize: Jonathan Jayes (Lund)
Thirsk-Feinstein Dissertation Prize: Victoria Gierok (Oxford)
TS Ashton Prize: Cheng Yang (Renmin University of China)
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The call for papers for the Annual EHS Conference 2020 at St Catherine's College Oxford is now open. We welcome paper proposals from academics and new researchers (by 2nd September), as well as posters by new researchers (by 18 November). More info here:
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Late Marriage as a Contributor to the Industrial Revolution in England
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We would like to share some of the brilliant research that would have been presented at the Annual Conference. Over the coming weeks, we will be posting blogs based on conference papers from a variety of researchers on
#thelongrun
. Stay tuned social & economic historians!
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The members of the Economic History Society were saddened to hear of the death of Prof Sir Tony Wrigley, a great leader of the EHS both as President & editor of the
@EcHistSocReview
. A pathbreaking scholar, he was an inspiration to generations of economic and social historians
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Thank you to all the speakers and attendees of
#EHS2021
! The video poster presentations, short papers, blog posts, and other extra material is available on our site -
#EHS2021
see you at
@RobinsonCamb
@Cambridge_Uni
in 2022!
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TS Ashton Prize:
Mattia C. Bertazzini (Nottingham) for this EcHR article:
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we have teamed up with
@EconHistAssoc
,
& others to compile a bibliography for these times of crisis - part B of the "Long View on Epidemics, Disease and Public Health"
#thelongrun
#twitterstorians
#COVID19
#econhist
#socialhist
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'The Long View on Epidemics, Disease and Public Health: Research from Economic History'. This is a selection of recent articles generously made freely available by publishers to the public. (2 of 2)
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CFP! The call is open for the Spring 2024 YSI-EHES Graduate Economic History Webinar. Contributions welcome, regardless of time period/geographic area, as well as qualitative or quantitative approaches. The application deadline is 23rd February. Further:
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Congratulations to our EHS Fellowship recipients this academic year! Rebecca Mason
@rmason717
, Matt Raven
@MattRaven1992
, Joshua Rhodes
@joshrhodes12
and Charlie Taverner
@charlietaverner
#econhis
#EHS
#ECR
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Prof Nicholas Crafts CBE 1949-2023: A statement from Phillipp Schofield, President of the Economic History Society
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The competition for the 2024/2025 EHS Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowships is Now Open!
Up to three one-year postdoctoral Fellowships in economic and/or social history, at £22,000-£24,000.
The deadline for Applications is 31 January 2024.
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Applications are now open for the EHS Residential Training Course for postgraduate students in economic and/or social history, with 12 part-funded places available. The deadline for applications is 16 August 2019. More information can be found here:
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Latest from
#thelongrun
: 'London and Londoners, 1500-1720' by Joe Saunders
@Joe_saunders1
and Jess Ayres
@JessJJ_Ayres
University of York
@UniofYork
@CREMSYork
@LdnMetArchives
@SRSRenSoc
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PhD students in Economic and Social History - Applications are open for the EHS Residential Training Course. There are 12 part-funded places available, and the course will be held
@warwickuni
from 2nd - 5th December 2020. More information here:
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From
#thelongrun
: 'Dr Aaron Graham, 1984-2023: A tribute', written by Patrick Walsh
@SpeakerConolly
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From
#thelongrun
: 'How the Bank of England assisted in the formation of a fiscal-military state in Britain, paving the way for the Industrial Revolution' by Patrick O’Brien &
@nunopgpalma
@ManUniEconomics
@icsunivlisboa
@cepr_org
@OxfordESH
@LSEEcHist
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The Financial History Network (
@financialhist
) has launched a 2020/21 online webinar series! More information about the event here:
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from
#thelongrun
: "Taxation and the stagnation of
#cotton
#exports
in
#Brazil
, 1800 – 1860" by Thales Zamberlan Pereira
@FGVBrazil
@EconomiaGV
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Congratulations to Prof. Jane Humphries
@UniofOxford
All Souls College, appointed
#CBE
for her services to
#SocialSciences
and
#econhist
#EHS
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Inspired by the curated series from
#thelongrun
we are creating a collective bibliography on Pandemics in History including a section on primary resources in collaboration with
@ArchivesPortal
- please contribute by adding your sources on this shared file:
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Economic History Masterclass for Y12s and Y13s (or equivalent): The EHS, in conjunction with Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, will be hosting our first online super-curricular Economic History Masterclass on Saturday 23 September 2023.
Register below.
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EHS 2024 Conference, New Researcher Posters:
Luisa Bicalho Ritzkat (LSE)
@LRitzkat
.
'Institutional investors in the art market: The collection of the National Gallery, London 1824-1994'.
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from
#thelongrun
: "Technological Unemployment in Victorian Britain" by
@hillaryvipond
@LSEEcHist
- a research realised with funding from the
#EHS
more information in blog link
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from
#thelongrun
: "Poverty or Prosperity in Northern India? New Evidence on Real Wages, 1590s-1870s" for debate on Great Divergence & Indian subcontinent Pim de Zwart
@WUR
& Jan Lucassen
@IISG_Amsterdam
full article on
#earlyview
at
@EcHistSocReview
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Registration is now open for the EHS Women's Committee book club! You can find out more information and the link to registration on our website. Join us,
@DrJenniferAston
, Beatrice Craig
@uOttawa
,
@Carry_vLieshout
and Susan Lewis
@SUNY
on 14 April!
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Thirsk-Feinstein PhD Dissertation Prize:
Sam Geens (Antwerp)
Robert Yee (Princeton)
First Monograph Prize:
Ghazzan Moazzin (University of Hong Kong)
Maanik Nath (Utrecht)
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Latest from
#thelongrun
: 'Does trade liberalization boost innovation? Evidence from French industrial sectors in the nineteenth century' by Carla Salvo (
@salvo_carla
)
@SapienzaRoma
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PhD students in economic & social history: 16th August is the deadline for applications for the 2019 EHS Residential Training Course. This is a great opportunity to present your research and receive detailed feedback. More info here:
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On the Long Run Blog: Cecilia Lara (Universidad de la República, Montevideo) and Svante Prado (University of Gothenburg) use manufacturing to consider why Brazil has struggled to catch up to the productivity of rich countries during the 20th and 21st cent.
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the latest from
#thelongrun
and the final blog in our EHS 2020 Conference Blog Series: 'Taxation and Wealth Inequality in the German Territories of the Holy Roman Empire 1350-1800', by
@GierokVictoria
. Read it here:
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The EHS Women's Committee is hosting a book club on 14 April 2021, discussing the recent publication, 'Female Entrepreneurs in the Long Nineteenth Century: A Global Perspective', edited by
@DrJenniferAston
&
@cathbishopkiwi
,
@ReWOMEN_network
. More info soon - save the date!
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from
#thelongrun
: "Real urban wage in an agricultural economy without landless farmers: Serbia, 1862-1910" by
@BrankoMilan
@CUNY
@LSEEcHist
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Thanks to
@ArchivosEst
and
@ArchivesPortal
for contributing to the primary resources section of our shared bibliography on pandemics in history: material on the yellow fever, plague & more now available and please contribute!
#COVID19
#twitterstorians
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EHS 2024 Conference, New Researcher Posters:
Noah Sutter (LSE).
@NoahWSutter
'How revolutionary were the French Revolutions? Wealth mobility in France, 1791-1870'.
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from
#thelongrun
"Inequality, living standards, and growth: two centuries of economic development in Mexico" by Ingrid Bleynat
@KingsCollegeLon
,
@aechallu
@bgsu
@pdsegal
(KCL &
@LSEEcHist
)
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Our
#EHS
postdoctoral
#fellowship
is out!! for
#postdoc
candidates who have recently completed a doctoral degree in Economic/Social History, or will submitted their thesis by 1 October - deadline 3 April 2020, all details here
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A reminder that the deadline for submitting Academic Papers and Sessions and New Researcher Papers for the 2024 EHS Conference is nearly here! The deadline is 18th September 2023.
The deadline for New Researcher Poster proposals is 22nd November 2023.
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from
#thelongrun
: 'Censuses and the work women really did: case studies 1720-1920'. An early look at Amy Erickson's paper to be presented at the EHS Annual Conference
@QUCEHBelfast
:
@CamHistory
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from
#thelongrun
: 'The gender division of labour in early modern England: why study women’s work?' Full article published in The Economic History Review.
@WileyEconomics
@WileyHumanities
@exeterclio
@UoBrisHistory
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From
#thelongrun
"After the Black Death: labour legislation and attitudes towards labour in late-medieval western Europe"
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Our NR poster prize winner Alka Raman, with her research on Indian cotton and its impact on the British cotton industry
#EHS2019
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Now on the Long Run Blog: Ewout Frankema (Wageningen University & Research) and Marlous van Waijenburg (Harvard Business School) introduce their latest article for the Economic History Review.
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latest from
#thelongrun
, a new researcher blog, 'Seeing like the Chinese imperial state: how many government employees did the empire need?' by Ziang Liu
@LSEEcHist
. Available to read here:
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The Economic History Society, in conjunction with the
@ihr_history
, is offering up to four one-year postdoctoral Fellowships in Economic/Social History. The deadline for applications is 5th April 2019. More information can be found here:
@EcHisSocStudent
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from
#thelongrun
"Demand slumps and wages: History says prepare to bargain" by
@judyzara
@BartlettUCL
- lessons from history on
#Covid19
and how to cope with employment
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From
#thelongrun
, a post form one of the conference papers of
#EHS2020
- "Female petitioners to the English East India Company, 1600-1753" by Aske Laursen Brock
@aalborguni
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from
#thelongrun
: 'Tawney Lecture 2019: Slavery and Anglo-American Capitalism Revisited', by Gavin Wright
@Stanford
. This research will be published in the
@EcHistSocReview
later this year.
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We're looking forward to the book launch of two volumes by
@econcharlesread
and
@davidwpaulson
, 1915-2000 on April 1st at the Economic History Society Annual Conference
@WarwickUni
Location: Panorama 3, Rootes Building
#EHS2023
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PhD students - Join an informal discussion group for
#econhist
PhD students, 8 December @ 3pm GMT
'Using individual-level data in Economic History: the challenges, benefits, and limitations'
For zoom link DM the host
@julia_jarame
, or
@hillaryvipond
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Engineering the industrial revolution (1770-1850)
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from
#thelongrun
: "Two Worlds of Female Labour:
#Gender
Wage
#Inequality
in Western Europe, 1300-1800" by
@SdePleijt
& Jan Luiten van Zanden
@ESH_UU
full article from this blog published on
@EcHistSocReview
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Obituary: Professor Sir Tony Wrigley (1931 – 2022) "Tony Wrigley made an outstanding contribution to the study of economic and social history through his own research and through the leadership and inspiration that he provided to generations of historians"
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We are co-funding this interesting workshop together with the
@The_RHS
organised by
@DavidFoulk9
@OrielOxford
@UniofOxford
@OxfordESH
"Bullets and Banknotes: War Financing through the 20th Century" more info on our blog, including grants opportunities
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Deadline on Wednesday, 31st January! Applications for the 2024/2025 EHS Postdoctoral Visiting Fellowships. Up to three one-year postdoctoral Fellowships in economic and/or social history, at £22,000-£24,000.
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A challenge for historians: an essay on "What Lessons Can History Provide to Companies and Managers Currently Coping with the Impact of
#COVID19
" all details here:
dl 21Apr but we have ready-made bibliography on our blog
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from
#thelongrun
- "Augmented Human Development in the Age of Globalisation" by Leandro Prados de la Escosura Universidad Carlos III
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from
#thelongrun
: "Poverty in the Holy Roman Empire: A Long-Run Perspective from 1350 to 1800" by
@GierokVictoria
@NuffieldCollege
@UniofOxford
- winner of a New Research poster prize at
#EHS2021
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We are very happy to announce the New Researcher Online Sessions, starting Wednesday 15th July. There will be a variety of presentations from NRs who had been due to present at EHS 2020 Annual Conference. More information on our website:
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Congratulations to Jane Humphries and Jacob Weisdorf on this achievement!
The 2019
@RoyalEconSoc
Prize has been awarded to Jane Humphries and Jacob Weisdorf for their paper 'Unreal Wages? Real Income and Economic Growth in England, 1260–1850'. Read the full paper online
@EJ_RES
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A new researcher blog post on
#thelongrun
: 'Famine, institutions, and indentured migration in colonial India' by
@aaggarwal
@warwickecon
. Available here
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excellent day 1 of the
#EHS2022
so far! thanks to all our speakers, delegates, attendees, and co-organisers!
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At the EHS Annual Conference in Belfast this April, the Women's Committee panel 'Censuses and the Work Women Really Did' will be chaired by Amy Erickson and will consider women's work across industries and countries. Register online:
@QUCEHBelfast
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📌
#CFP
for
#EHS2022
is now open!!📌
The EHS Annual Conference 2022 will be held at
@RobinsonCamb
1-3Apr,hopefully in person! CFP open until 22sep for Academics & New Researcher Papers, and until 21nov for New Researcher Posters - all info & submission
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A taster of today's New Research session: from our blog
#thelongrun
"How did Indian cottons influence the growth of the British calico industry in the 18th and 19th centuries?" by
@alka_raman
@LSEEcHist
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right before the holidays, an excellent read from
#thelongrun
: “ ‘Where women are respected, there flourishes civilization.’ – Historical antecedents of
#MeToo
.” by Jane Humphries
@OxfordESH
@OxfordHistory
@LSEEcHist
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from
#thelongrun
"Italy and the Little Divergence in Wages and Prices: Evidence from Stable Employment in Rural Areas, 1500-1850" by Mauro Rota & Jacon Weisdorf
@SapienzaRoma
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latest from
#thelongrun
, Part E of our series on epidemics, disease and public health: 'Pandemics and Institutions: Lessons from Plague' by
@guido_alfani
@Unibocconi
&
@Tommy_E_Murphy
@UdeSA
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from
#thelongrun
: 'Is committing to a free trade policy enough? Evidence from colonial Africa' by Federico Tadei.
@UniBarcelona
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from
#thelongrun
: 'Cotton, industrialisation and a missing piece of the puzzle', a blog post from Alka Raman, who was awarded the prize for the best new researcher poster at the EHS Annual Conference 2019 in Belfast.
@LSEEcon
@LSEEcHist
#EHS2019
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from
#thelongrun
: "Italians v. Spaniards: Which group really ‘Made America’ in Argentina?" by
@LArroyoAbad
@CUNY
&
@noel_maurer
@GWtweets
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The EHS Annual Conference is only 3 months away! Registration is open! The first day will be dedicated to New Researchers in economic and social history, across 16 sessions. We have also accepted 20 New Research posters. More to follow soon! The programme:
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To further highlight the excellent work of the New Researchers at the recent EHS conference, we will be circulating their specific work here!
First is Syed Mohib Ali Ahmed (Uni of Siena)
'The Atlantic Market Effect: Evidence from 18th Century Britain'
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Upcoming application deadlines for Jobs & Studentships in Economic/Social History:
The Economics section at Cardiff University is advertising fully funded PhD studentships. 12th Jan.
Tenure-Track Professor – University of Vienna. 15th Jan.
Info and links:
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#EHS2019
Tawney Lecture, presented at the EHS annual conference by Professor Gavin Wright (Stanford University), is now available: 'Slavery and Anglo-American Capitalism Revisited'
@QUBelfast
@QUCEHBelfast
@QUBManagement
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Latest from
#thelongrun
: 'When nation building goes south: draft evasion, government repression, and the origins of the Sicilian mafia' by Gianni Marciante
@warwickecon
@cage_warwick
@warwickuni
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from
#thelongrun
, "Enslavement and Empire in the French Caribbean, 1793–1851" by Joseph la Hausse de Lalouvière
@ihr_history
, post based on the author’s dissertation which won the Thirsk-Feinstein PhD Dissertation Prize, 2021 - link in blog
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from
#thelongrun
, a study made possible thanks to the
#EHSgrants
"Occupational Wealth Estimates from Probate Data, 1858-1908" by
@AureliusNoble
@LSEEcHist
&
@CaterinAdelaide
@SyddanskUni
- link to the Carnevali Research Grant in the post!
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Our second TS Ashton Prize, to Judy Stephenson for her "'Real' Wages? Contractors, workers, and pay in London building trades, 1650-1800'
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@ProfJohnTurner
@QUBelfast
on the financial implications of
#COVID
ー19 and please contribute to our bibliography on the long view on Pandemics
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from
#thelongrun
: "A World Energy Revolution: the first phase 1820-1913" by Paolo Malanima
@UMG_Tweet
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from
#thelongrun
: "Asia’s ‘little divergence’ in the twentieth century: evidence from PPP-based direct estimates of GDP per capita, 1913–69", by Jean-Pascal Bassino & Pierre van der Eng. This research has been published in the Economic History Review.
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The deadline for our Bursary Scheme for PhD Students has been extended. Apply by 14 July!
Bursaries of up to £5,000 are open to full and part-time students, at any stage of their PhD.
Find out more on our website:
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