📣 Call for Papers: Economic History of the Mediterranean 🌊
Jointly organized by YSI & the Figuerola Institute.
🗓 July 1, 2026 | 📍 @uc3m.es (Madrid)
🎙 Keynote: David Chilosi (@kingscollegelondon.bsky.social)
⏰ Deadline: May 3
Apply here: fs8.formsite.com/CNZLjX/nsqpr...
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What do light bulbs and #EasterEggs have in common? More than you might think👇 #Easter #econhist #econhis #businesshistory
#1 Best Seller in #EconHist - thank you to everyone who has bought, borrowed, recommended & reviewed #Economica. I am enormously grateful for your support and very much look forward to the forthcoming lectures, talks, events & discussions. #econhis #economichistory
How did people insure themselves against job loss, illness and older age in the days before the #welfarestate? And who were the women who pioneered some of the first (pre-state) #pension schemes? Listen to my interview the #InsuranceCovered podcast: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... #econhist #NICs
I gave the Alice Murray Lecture in TCD recently and it is available here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ea_-...
#econhist
Call For Papers!
Are you working on economic history in the preindustrial period? Please submit a proposal for our conference, held jointly @lseechist.bsky.social and @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social in November!
Deadline March 31st!
#econhist #medieval #economics #history
Historians, do you have a preferred resource for digital access to historical newspapers? I have library access to a limited version of ProQuest, but it is missing a lot #history #econhist #economichistory #socialhistory
Francis Edgeworth died 100 years ago on 13 February 1926. I gave a little paper about him at a very jolly event held in Oxford to mark the occasion, available here:
www.sciencespo.fr/department-e...
#EconSky #econhist
A very big thank you to everyone who has purchased #Economica 📗 - currently number 2 on the Amazon bestseller list for #econhist. I look forward to hearing your thoughts.
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Many thanks to all participants for a very stimulating discussion on @davidedgerton.bsky.social manuscript of his upcoming book on the global history of production since 1900. And special thanks to Jean-Baptiste Fressoz for coming to comment all the way from Paris.
#econhist #histstm
Episode 5 of Everything Economic History is now live!
Join Andrew and Lloyd as they sit down with @ainedoran.bsky.social to talk about the discipline of economic history, and how it might grow and change in the future
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The @echistsocreview.bsky.social has just published an online virtual issue in honour of Joel Mokyr, featuring a very nice introduction by @mdrelichman.bsky.social, available here:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1...
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Join us tomorrow for an exciting talk on the history of UK debt!
Just in time with current events, Professor Olivier Accominotti will lead the discussion on a historical intepretation and lessons to be learnt💷📈
Find out more here:
www.lse.ac.uk/economic-his...
#lse #econhist #ukdebt #chancellor
Join us at the IHR/online tomorrow to hear Mike Braddick on "The business of grain milling in England, c. 1540-1800" #econhist www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...
CfP: Renewing Economic History in East Africa The organisers invite contributions on topics focused on East Africa, in any period, which draw from economic, social, labour, global history, political economy, agricultural and development economics, development studies, economic anthropology, and demography. Selected papers will be invited to submit to a special issue of EHDR Deadline: 15 December 2025
CfP: Renewing Economic History in East Africa
Selected papers will be invited to submit to a special issue of @historyregions.bsky.social
Deadline: 15 December 2025
#EconHist #EastAfrica
I’ll be back in #Oxford on Monday to talk about my new book - #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power - at Blackwells bookshop. If you’re free at 5.30pm, it would be lovely to see you there. Tickets are still available: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/victoria-b... #EconHist #womenwealthpower
Thanks for reading!
📄 Full paper 👉 [pierpaolocreanza.github.io/website/creanza_jmp.pdf]
📧 pcreanza@princeton.edu
👨🏻💻 Website 👉 www.ppcreanza.com
#EconTwitter #EconJobMarket #Innovation #EconHist (13/13)
A privilege to be in Scotland signing copies of #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power 📗 (one of the FT’s best books of the week 🎉) @headlinebooks.bsky.social & #SealPress. If you’d like to read a new global economic history - with women put back in - grab your copy now. #EconHist
🚨🚀The 3rd issue of 2025 is now available online!
#EconHist #Development #EconomicHistory
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rehd20/4...
Delighted that the FT have reviewed my new book, #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power. The reviewer writes “Economica is an epic…[&] important retelling of global economic history that puts women at the centre”. Out now @headlinebooks.bsky.social @hachetteuk.bsky.social #EconHist
Amazing public good release by @rickhornbeck.bsky.social and his collaborators!
No doubt this will generate even more (interesting) #econhist research about the United States.
Join us tonight for a HOPE Center Hayek Lecture with @hasnasj.bsky.social on "Common Law Liberalism". Hope to see you there! @dukelaw.bsky.social #econsky #Econhist
Look forward to speaking @greshamcollege.bsky.social London tomorrow at 1pm. Free to attend but only a few tickets remaining, so please book now if you’d like to attend (in person or online): www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/wom... #EconHist
CfP: What Can History Teach Us About Building Resilient Economies in the 21st Century?
Deadline: 27 November 2025
Conference: 29 - 30 January 2026, Stellenbosch, South Africa
econrsa.org/events/what-...
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Heute vor 100 Jahren begingen europäischen #Sparkassen den 1. #Weltspartag. Dass #Finanzerziehung schon älter ist, zeigt:
▶ Sandra Mass, Formulare des Ökonomischen in der #Geldpädagogik des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts, #WerkstattGeschichte 58/2012 […]
My latest for @historyextra.bsky.social: “The Real History Behind The Forsytes: How Much Of The Drama Is True?” | HistoryExtra #EconHist #LateVictorian #PeriodDrama #TheForsytes www.historyextra.com/period/victo...
It will be a huge honour to deliver the 2026 #HajnalLecture at the University of Manchester. It will also be something of a homecoming: Manchester was not only the place I grew up, it shaped my love of Economic History. #Manchester #EconHist @manchester.ac.uk #ArthurLewisLab @nunopgpalma.bsky.social
