Händel Messiah - Hallelujah Chorus YouTube video by Luis Peres

Christ is risen. Hallelujah! (by Händel, appropriately). Happy Easter to all.

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A screenshot of a newspaper from 1854 citing the prices of various commodities, mainly cotton and cotton products.

I am in search of data on prices of cotton and cotton yarn in 1845-1851. Does anyone among the #econhist here know of a good source that would give me the same level of price detail as the attached screenshot of an illustrative price list from an 1854 issue of one Austrian newspaper?

After several days of nothing but tedious coursework marking, I finally found time again to work on research. It went about as well as is usual.

Tomáš Cvrček (UCL) 5.12.2024 It is our pleasure that Tomáš Cvrček (UCL) will present on Thursday, December 5, 2024, at 12:45 in room RB437 about the topic “Was the Industrial Revolution censored in Austria before 1848? Industrial...

A bit of self-promotion, if you are around in Prague on Thursday #econhist

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Call for Papers for a conference on interwar economic history of Cetnral and Eastern Europe, held in Regensburg, Germany, in June 2025.

A new CfP for all those interested in the #econhist of Central & Eastern Europe in the long 20th century. To be held at IOS @leibniz-ios.de in lovely Regensburg, 26-27 June 2025. Submission deadline: 15th Dec 2024. #econsky

Oh, quit carping!

Interesting. I had thought the pace was much faster than this... (to say nothing of Paul Ehrlich's erstwhile claim that Britain had 50:50 chance of being under water by year 2000).

UCL SSEES YouTube video by UCLSSEES

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Exactly what a quiet Irish goodbye to Twitter is not.

I don't see why it has to be either/or. If they want to maximize their reach, they should be on as many networks as they see fit.

Ah, yes, I've read my English-Hungarian dictionary many times. And with every reading, I find a new twist to the plot!

Flagwaving at Wenceslas Square, Prague during demos against Communism back in November 1989

Masaryk údajně Čapkovi pravil: "Nebudu se bát, až když tady demokracie vydrží padesát let." K dnešku 35 z těch 50 už máme za sebou, 15 nám ještě schází. Tak do toho, ať to fakt vydrží. #Czech #VelvetRevolution #Listopad #FallOfCommunism

Thanks. Looks like waiting worked! My handle is valid. I feel validated... ;-)

"Invalid Handle"? What does that mean? I'm quite happy to fix it, if only I could figure out how.