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Read the Working Paper here:
'Where is the Middle Class? Inequality, Gender and the Shape of the Upper Tail from 60 million English Death and Probate Records, 1892-2016'
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Join us for this round table discussion of the themes raised in Maxine Berg and Pat Hudson’s new book:
Slavery, Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution
Tuesday 10 October 2023 7.00pm to 8.30pm
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We are delighted to announce that Dr Mara Pasquamaria Squicciarini (
@mara_squi
) will deliver the 2023 Epstein Lecture.
Title: A Complex Relationship: religiosity and science in a historical perspective.
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Were Victorian liberals right to extol nineteenth-century English society as one of openness and high mobility? Or were opportunities few and far between?
PhD student Ziming Zhu’s research uses individual-level data spanning 60 years (1851 to 1911) to answer these questions.
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The department is deeply saddened by the death of Professor Nick Crafts, a former Convenor of the Department, and a great friend and colleague. He was generous with his time, supportive of students and young scholars and, above all, very funny.
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'Most of us die virtually penniless'
Latest
@LSEEcHist
Working Paper from
@NeilJCummins
shows that since 1950 generational wealth was shuffled among top 20-30 per cent, middle and lower classes passing on little to nothing.
Read
@LSENews
feature here:
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Many congratulations to our colleague Professor
@Chris__Minns
(
@LSEEcHist
) who has been made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences! Fellows of the Academy are elected for their substantial contributions to social sciences.
We are delighted to welcome 41 leading social scientists, who highlight the importance of the
#socialsciences
in tackling society’s most pressing challenges, to our Fellowship. Look out for some of our new Fellows who will be introduced later today.
➡️
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Congratulations to
@PikaGoldin
for being awarded the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences!
Professor Goldin's rigorous work on the history of women's labour has shown how economic history can illuminate the past, inform the present, and guide the future.
BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel to Claudia Goldin “for having advanced our understanding of women’s labour market outcomes.”
#NobelPrize
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Apply to present at our Graduate Economic History Seminar this Michaelmas term🗣️📽️📊 Details below
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In yesterday’s department economic history seminar 📽📊, Rinchan Ali MIrza discusses the relationship between institutions and conflicts, utilising a historical boundary in Pakistan’s north-west frontier. (🧵1/5)
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The (extended)
@LSEEcHist
family at this year's
@EcHistSoc
Annual Conference in Newcastle
Many thanks to
@EcHistSoc
and
@NorthumbriaUni
for organising this superb conference!
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Our PhD students are ready for the
@EcHistSoc
poster session this week in Newcastle. Stay tuned!
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Yesterday, the Economic History PhDs played the gift-swapping/stealing game White Elephant 🐘🎄
Each player wrapped up a favourite book to put in the pile 📖🎁
Here are the books they each got back 🧵:
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How important was London’s financial market for international trade during the first era of globalisation? In a recent graduate seminar, Youssef Ghallada aims to examine whether countries’ access to the London Discount Market impacts positively their bilateral trade. (🧵1/6)
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Is free voting possible in an agrarian country with strong landed elites? What choices are possible for poor workers entangled in patron-client relationships, where the landowners are not only their monopsonist employers, but also a substitute for lacking capital markets?
(1/10)
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Winners and nominations for LSE Class Teacher and LSESU Teaching Awards 2023🏆🎊
Nick Fitzhenry (
@NickArtFitz
) is this year’s winner of the LSE Class Teacher Awards for the Economic History Department.
Andres Guiot-Isaac, William Mitchell & Sabine Schneider were highly commended
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PhD students in economic history, come present at our graduate seminar this Lent term! 📢
Quant 📊and Qual 📜✍️, all regions 🌍, all time periods⌛
Deadline to apply: 30th November 📅
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What can a destructive storm tell us about the importance of infrastructure for trade ⛵ and growth 📈? In a recent seminar 📽📊, returning student
@ChristianVedel
(
@SDUeconhist
) presented his research on a 19th-century storm 🌩️ that reshaped the waterways of Denmark. (🧵1/5)
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In our most recent graduate seminar 📽📊, Carla Salvo
@salvo_carla
(
@SapienzaRoma
), presented her preliminary research on the role of trade liberalisation on productivity growth via technical change, in the context of 19th c. France 🇫🇷 and adoption of the steam engine💨⚙️(🧵1/5).
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𝐸𝑣𝑒𝑛𝑡
𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒊𝒍𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒆𝒎𝒑𝒊𝒓𝒆: 𝒉𝒐𝒘 𝑮𝒆𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒚 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒊𝒕𝒔 𝒇𝒊𝒓𝒔𝒕 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒐𝒏 𝒄𝒖𝒓𝒓𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒚
09 May 2024, 18:00-19:30
We are delighted to welcome LSE's own Oliver Volckhart, who will present his new book.
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What caused the recovery from the British Great Depression?
In a recent blog post 📝,
@jason_lennard
and co-authors describe their research, collecting high freq. information from primary and secondary sources to measure expected inflation in the UK between the wars. (🧵1/4)
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What are the limitations of traditional estimates of intergenerational social mobility? In today’s graduate seminar,
@ZimingZhu7
(
@LSEEcHist
) presented his revised estimate of intergenerational occupation mobility in Victorian England. (🧵1/6)
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Congratulations to
@julia_jarame
, who passed her viva today! Well deserved! Dr. Jaramilo 🎉🎉🎊🎊
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📊 New research investigates how historical regional identities shape investor decisions in Germany, known as "home bias" phenomenon. In a recent seminar, Tilo Huning (
@EconomicsatYork
) presented findings that suggest investors may be biased due to intangible regional attachments
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In last week’s seminar, former PhD student Li Ling-Fan returned to present her new research project on the curious trade in sovereign debt in late 17th-century England. (🧵1/7)
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@AureliusNoble
, PhD student at the Department of Economic History at LSE (
@LSEEcHist
), has created an interactive workshop on automated transcription for economic historians. The workshop does not need any previous programming experience, is free, and accessible online!
Excited to announce a new interative workshop on automated transcription for economic historians: ! The workshops aims to help beginners explore how to apply these methods, and take their first steps into the field
@LSEEcHist
@EconHistAssoc
@The_EHES
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How did consumption patterns change over the course of six centuries? What can we learn from this about the evolution of real wages in England?
Sara Horrell‘s new blog post and latest article shed light on these questions:
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We are excited to announce our hosting of a public lecture🗣️📽️📊 by Nick Crafts: Play it Again Clem? Lessons from the 1940s for Post-COVID Britain.
Thursday 06 October 2022 6:30pm to 8:00pm.
Hybrid event at LSE. Registration for online attendance is:
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Do economists’ ideas change the ways the economic world works?💡🌍
On Thursday 23 November 2023 6.30pm to 8.00pm, Professor Mary S. Morgan will be delivering a public lecture on how economics changes the world.
Click the link below for further details.
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This Monday, The Department and the Economic History Advisory Board hosted Professor Edward Glaeser (
@HarvardEcon
) who delivered a fascinating talk on Urban Resilliance.
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In a recent blog post📝, our PhD candidate Charlie Udale presents an original approach to measuring the extent to which quarantine regulations 🦠🔒 were followed during plague epidemics in Elizabethan Bristol (1565-1604) 🏴 (🧵1/6)
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In a recent seminar 📽📊, our PhD student
@vperezsanchez1
presented his research on Castille’s 17th-c. monetary policy, specifically its decision — when the kingdom was the largest recipient and minter of American silver 🪙— to issue a low-value copper coin: The Vellon. (🧵1/5)
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In this episode of
@EconHistPodcast
, LSE Prof.
@ericbschneider
discusses the use of data on heights in economic history as a measure of well-being.
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Did Mercantilism Work? In a recent blog post 📝Lina Gäbel, a recent BSc graduate of our department, discusses her research on the effects of mercantilist trade policy for 18th century Sweden (🧵1/6)
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In a recent graduate seminar,
@BglMarie
presented her ongoing research on the intergenerational impact of violence during Slavery in the French West Indies🇲🇶🇬🇵 (1/6🧵)
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1/5 In this week’s graduate seminar, Justin Schwartz (KCL) delves into the intriguing history of the Diggers, an agrarian revolutionary group in 17th-century England. They challenged the notion of private property and advocated for a levelling of land enclosures.
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What makes a good composer 🎼?
@Arts_Econ
seeks to answer this by studying the lives of a number of famous composers and multiple possible factors. (🧵1/6)
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What are the implications of international capital flows during and after a global financial crisis? In our graduate seminar, Lukas Diebold (
@GESSuniMannheim
) presented new evidence using a novel dataset from the League of Nations. (1/6)
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📢Another public event 🎙📷next week! This time, we have J. Bradford DeLong talking about his new book📚: Slouching Towards Utopia: An Economic History of the Twentieth Century.
Monday 10 October 2022 6:00pm
Online Event. Registration here➡️
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Congratulations
@LayersofLondon
- these maps are fantastic tools for understanding the economic history of London.
BREAKING NEWS 📢📢 We have a new
#historic
#map
layer folks!
#London
mapped in 1658! You can find windmills, a very different looking
@StPaulsLondon
and find out about the
#Lambeth
problem
@MOLArchaeology
@ihr_history
@HLFLondon
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Professor Chris Minns (
@Chris__Minns
) of
@LSEEchist
will give his Inaugural Lecture at LSE 22 October 2018 on the lessons to be drawn from past migrations: 'Do the Migrations of the Past have Lessons for Today?' Details here:
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In a recent graduate economic history seminar 📽📊,
@NeubertMagnus
presented his work on the effect of labour-managed socialism on economic development. (🧵 1/5)
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@LSEEcHist
had a very successful weekend at the
@EcHistSoc
Annual Conference in Newcastle.
We presented two papers in the New Researcher Sessions, five posters in the New Researcher Poster Session, and eleven papers in the academic sessions. 🧵
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First Asia Economic History Seminar 🎙 of this academic year next week! Prof. Richard von Glahn will join us for a talk about paper money 💴 in Song China.
Tuesday 18 Oct 12:00-13:00 PAR 1.02, LSE. Feel free to join if you're interested!
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What lessons can we learn for the recovery of Covid from 1940s Britain? Looking at the past to understand the present has become pressing. In the public lecture on 6 Oct, Nick Crafts gave us his answer to this question. (🧵1/6)
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As a Christmas treat: A
#throwback
to this year's LSE Economic History PhD book White Elephant game. 🎄
As last year, every player wraps a book and adds it to the pile. Then the unwrapping, stealing and swapping begins. 📚
A thread of books everybody ended up with 🧵 (1/14)
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Our
@ERC_Research
funded project 'Narrative Science' features in the June issue of
@BSHSViewpoint
. The team is investigating narrative in science past and present, from economics to geology, to medicine and everything in between.
#histstm
#philsci
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📝 In his recent blog post, Nicholas Accattatis
@NAccattatis
uses behavioural economics to analyse the Convention Parliament of 1689, which enshrined the achievements of the Glorious Revolution into the English constitution
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How do
#climate
and
#geography
affect
#inequality
and
#growth
?
In a recent book,
@RoyHistory1
studies Indian History through the lenses of water access & the environment.
This blog post discusses Professor Roy’s new book.
👉
(1/4)🧵
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How did the Reformation change academic communities, and how did it affect the productivity of scholars?⛪🎓 In our first EH seminar this year, David De La Croix (
@UCLouvain_be
) discussed his research on university networks in 16th c. Europe (🧵1/7)
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Thank you to
@delong
for presenting last night on his new book, Slouching Towards Utopia 📚🥧 A link to the recording will be made available shortly.
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Our PhD student
@NoahWSutter
has reviewed the book „As Gods among Men: A History of the Rich in the West“ by
@guido_alfani
in the
@LSEReviewBooks
.
NEW ✨ As Gods among Men: A History of the Rich in the West by
@guido_alfani
@PrincetonUPress
reviewed by
@NoahWSutter
@LSEEcHist
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In a new blog post, Cindy Wan explores Japan's colonial legacy in Korea's business sector. Japanese rule introduced modern business and monetary institutions, resulting in the growth of the Korean business sector 🇯🇵📊🇰🇷
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In turn, Luisa swapped Greg for The Colour of Time by Dan Jones & Marina Amaral (2018): A book containing gorgeous full-colour digital renditions of historical black and white photographs 🎨🕰
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Did technological
#unemployment
sweep across England during the Industrial Revolution? 🇬🇧🤖🪡
Studying the English boot-making industry
@hillaryvipond
provides an answer to this question 👢✂️🧶
#econhist
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If you are thinking of taking a PhD in Economic History at LSE, please join us for a webinar where we will outline the opportunities, and offer a Q&A. The event will be on Tuesday 15th November at 11.30am, and you can find more information here: .
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🚨 Job opportunity🚨
LSE Fellow in the Department of Economic History 📚🧑🏫
ℹ️ More info:
📩Queries about the role: Jennie Stayner (j.c.stayner
@lse
.ac.uk)
🗓️Deadline: 25th April 2022
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In a recent blog post 📝,
@ericbschneider
describes using data on children’s heights in Japan following WW2 to investigate the age children are most at risk of stunting, and how likely they are to recover, following wartime shocks (🧵1/6)
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In a recent seminar 📽📊,
@paulwinfree
of
@QUBelfast
presented his research on the long-run effects of temporarily closing schools in Virginia, 1870s-1910s (🧵1/6)
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Interested in S Asian economic history? Read 'A Business History of India' - recent publication from Professor Tirthankar Roy:
@LSEEcHist
#economichistory
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Today we are delighted to welcome two new members of faculty, Assistant Professors
@jordanclaridge
and Anne Ruderman. We wish them all the best here in the department and at LSE.
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Article in
@lemondefr
featuring work on aristocratic persistence in 19th century England by our PhD student
@AureliusNoble
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In a recent Economic History Seminar📽📊,
@lydia_assouad
@LSE_ID
gave a presentation of how charismatic leaders contributed to nation-building beyond policy choices, using Turkish national revolution in 1923-1945 as a case study. (🧵1/6)
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Can
#ClimateChange
impact governments’ relations with their people? Can we learn from
#history
?☀️🌊🌧️⛈️
@MorshedSafya
writes about a period of historical changes in climate in India 🇮🇳
Read the article here:
Or stay tuned for the 🧵 (1/4)
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Congratulations to Safya Moshed for winning the Luzzatto Prize for best dissertation at the EHES! 🥳🏆
And the winner is Safya Morshed. Congratulations to her and the other finalists! In reading the summaries and seeing their presentations, I was encouraged about the state of the pipeline of quantitative economic history.
@The_EHES
@RoyHistory1
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Come join our Asia Economic History Seminar! Prof. Janet Hunter will present her new book. See you all on 7 Feb next Tuesday 😃
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The work of our amazing undergraduate student Olamide Duyile is being celebrated today at
#UGradoftheyear
. Olamide founded and runs
#MadeInHackney
, a social action motivational project for schoolkids.
Best of luck, Olamide!
@LSEnews
@LSEVolunteering
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The Department of Economic History at the LSE would be pleased to support suitable applications for a one-year postdoctoral fellowship to start in October 2023; applicants must be completing their PhD on an ‘ESRC DTP pathway’. (1/3)
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Just one week to go until the Epstein Lecture 2019.
'The Historical Roots of Racial Health Inequality in the United States'
Dr Marcella Alsan
More details here:
#econhist
#EpsteinLecture2019
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The department had a wonderful time making great contributions to
#ehs2023
held from 31 March to 2 April.
Here the 🧵 of the researchers 🧑🏫 who presented at the conference (1/5)
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DEADLINE 12 OCTOBER 2022.
The Department of Economic History at the LSE is interested in hosting post-doctoral candidates who have an economic history project suitable for this Fellowship. Check eligibility and criteria at the British Academy website:
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1/5 📚 Farm service in England from 1851-1911: Our LSE PhD Student Mikhail Kolosov aims to fill the gaps in our understanding 🏞️Using I-CeM, Campop, and agri. census data, he revises the number of farm servants in 1851 and 1861 upwards by one-third! 📈
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Congratulations to all, especially to our PhD student Alka Raman (Best Poster) and master's Francesco Giacomini (Popular Prize, Written Pitch)🎉🎉🎉
This year's LSE research competition winners share the fascinating stories behind their entries.
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Tomorrow at 6:30🗓️📢 In our first public lecture of the semester, Nick Crafts considers what governence lessons can be drawn from Atlee administration.
Attend virtually or in person.
We are excited to announce our hosting of a public lecture🗣️📽️📊 by Nick Crafts: Play it Again Clem? Lessons from the 1940s for Post-COVID Britain.
Thursday 06 October 2022 6:30pm to 8:00pm.
Hybrid event at LSE. Registration for online attendance is:
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Dr Natacha Postel-Vinay
@natachapv
discusses
#cryptocurrency
bubbles and regulation on
@CNBC
#bitcoin
@LSEEcHist
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Join us for the public lecture📽️🎙️next week!
@leighgardnerEH
will talk about her new book 📚: Sovereignty without Power: Liberia in the Age of Empires, 1822-1980. (1/2)
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Congratulations to
@LSEEcHist
alumnus Thilo Albers, who was awarded the Gino Luzzato Prize for Best Dissertation at the Congress of the European Historical Economics Society last week.
#ehes2019
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Congratulations to
@LSEcHist
's Dr Anne Ruderman
@AnneRuderman
for winning a National Science Foundation grant for her project, “Investing in Captivity: Financing the Transatlantic Slave Trade”, jointly with Marlous van Waijenburg (Harvard Business School).
#econhist
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STICERD grants awarded to
@LSEECHist
faculty members Dr Olivier Accominotti for his research on 19th-20th C. British finance and to
@jordanclaridge
's for his project on real wages in the Middle Ages.
#econhist
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On
#InternationalWomensDay
we honour Professor Lilian Knowles, one of LSE's first research students, appointed Britain's second professor in Economic History in 1921. Rock on, Professor Knowles.
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