Patrick Wallis
@phwallis
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Professor of economic history at LSE. Historian of medicine, work and other stuff. Runner.
London, England
Joined December 2014
RT @EcSochist_ihr: Join us at the IHR on Tuesday (28/1) for Regina Grafe (Cambridge) on "Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spโฆ
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RT @EcHistSoc: The benefits of EHS membership (inc. access to grants, prizes, fellowships and discounted conference attendance) are availabโฆ
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IHR #econhist seminar this week on bigamy and clandestine marriage in 18th century England #twitterstorian
Join us this Tuesday for Bigamy in an Era of Clandestine Marriages, with @ProfProbert. In person and hybrid.
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Excited and proud to have been elected as the next president of the economic history society. Itโs a wonderful community to be part of. #econhist @EcHistSoc
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the IHR economic history scene is kicking off again - big questions about how merchants cooperate over long distances. it's more tenure track than grief's maghrebi. always worth a listen
Join us on Tuesday 12th at the IHR/online for Esther Sahle and Ulla Kypta on "Solving the Principal-Agent Problem Through Apprenticeship: Evidence from Sixteenth-Century Germany" #econhist #twitterstorians
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RT @LSEEcHist: ๐๐๐ฎ๐ป ๐๐ผ๐๐ฒฬ ๐ฅ๐ถ๐๐ฎ๐ ๐ ๐ผ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ป๐ผ ๐๐ถ๐ป๐ ๐ฎ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ฐ ๐๐ผ๐น๐ฒ๐บ๐ฎ๐ป ๐ฃ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ฒ Juan's PhD thesis was awarded at the Association of Business Historians Confโฆ
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RT @Marinelivesorg: Announcing the digital publication of 12 years work by 150 volunteers. 3 mill words from 7 vols of English High Court oโฆ
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@FADCLDN @joefrancis505 Most of this is just based on names, but we did look for in-laws for a sub-set and they life the level a bit but less than you'd expect.
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@joefrancis505 not helping out, I guess - probably because they were not around so much. London was a city of migrants, and until it grew bigger, kin were rare...
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Big shout to the thirteen @LSEEcHist undergraduate student coauthors who helped create this paper! #lse #econhist
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Why? Two big things hit the city - the reformation and explosive growth. Both probably matter. But the loss of spiritual community seems likely to affect trust - and social capital particularly.
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150 years later the guild didn't mater much. Instead family and neighbours were trusted. You can read more in the Historical Journal doi:10.1017/S0018246X24000335
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RT @LSEEcHist: This Wednesday, our alumna Safeena Husain (BSc Economic History 1995) will be awarded an Honorary Degree by LSE. She is theโฆ
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RT @judyzara: @mmpaker @phwallis we are online ! @EcHistSocReview thanks to those who gave us the feedback to helpโฆ
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RT @EcSochist_ihr: How was the Manila Galleon financed? Find out from Juan Jose Rivas Moreno (UCL) on Friday 9 Feb at the IHR https://t.co/โฆ
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RT @NJCummins: Hello Peoples! ***Call for Papers for a Workshop on the โuse of Genealogical Sources in Economic Historyโ 3rd and 4th of Junโฆ
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RT @EcSochist_ihr: Join us this Friday for Joris van den Tol on 'Dutch trade and credit in the Barbados Sugar Boom of the 17th Century'. hyโฆ
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