26, Newcastle.
History PhD at Northumbria, studying how expatriate merchants navigated the interplay between Trust and Human, Financial and Social Capital.
If you’re at the #ASLEUKI2025 conference in Galway, take a look at my book The Unnatural Trade on the book stall. I have copies for sale at the special conference price of €30 - ask me in the breaks. If you’re not at the conference, find out more at https://t.co/szWa5A5R5Q
Now on the Long Run: 'Sulphur governance and state-community relations in the Duchy of Florence, 1532-1569'.
Fabrizio Ansani (King’s College London) discusses their ongoing research, supported by an EHS Carnevali Small Research Grant.
https://t.co/eFZ9mkykI9
Deadline Thursday!
The deadline for this round of applications for the EHS Bursary Scheme for PhD Students is 31 July. One-year bursaries of up to £5,000 are available, primarily aimed at supporting students without full external funding to continue their studies.
Now on the Long Run: 'Failure by design? Contesting the use of failure in historical research'. Paula González Fons (European University Institute) outlines her paper about the use of failure in historical research, based on a paper recently presented at the 2025 EHS Conference.
The call for papers, sessions and posters for the 2026 EHS Conference is now open!
It will be held at the Cheng Kin Ku (CKK) building, LSE, 10 – 12 April.
Paper proposals must be received by 15 September 2025, poster proposals by 17 November.
https://t.co/TwjMla4t3v
Now on the Long Run: 'Delivering Better Maternal Healthcare? An Examination of Black Hospital Obstetrics Care across the Mid-Twentieth Century'. Matthew Purcell (LSE) describes how a research grant for graduate students from the EHS has helped his doctoral research.
Now on the Long Run: 'Post-war American technological transfers to Britain and Italy'. William Ciptonugroho (Cambridge) introduces his research on the Marshall Plan, which was financially supported by the Economic History Society through its Research Fund for Graduate Students.
ATTENTION MARITIME HISTORY FANS! The CfP for the Maritime Britain project end of project conference is now live. Check out the poster below and register your interest on Eventbrite in attending and/or giving a paper: https://t.co/YCNPH7gu0R
Save the date! The EHS Women’s Committee is organising a walking tour of the Roman Walls in Exeter as a networking event on 22 August 2025. The tour will be led by Prof Mark Stoyle of the University of Southampton. For booking & more details, see👇
https://t.co/FswroRH7qC
CfP now out for the Annual Workshop of the EHS Women’s Committee.
Theme: Women & Entrepreneurship - Agency, Experience, and Enterprise
Date: 12 Dec 2025
Venue: UCL History
Deadline for proposals: 5 Sept 2025
For more details, see👇
https://t.co/yTbGksEzP6
🚨Only 10 days left to sign-up to our summer school in Odense on historical economics. Highlights: Keynote lectures by Christopher Meissner on the global economy in the past. Further expect courses on project design, ML methods for data processing, and the recent DiD literature
Now on the Long Run: 'Imperial China’s eighteenth-century quota: how an affirmative-action experiment reshaped the exam empire'.
Melanie Meng Xue (LSE) & Boxiao Zhang (Renmin) introduce their new working paper, which is based on a paper previously presented at an EHS Conference.
Greetings from (sunny!) Glasgow where we are gathered for the EHS Annual Conference 2025 #EHS2025 The Women’s Committee @WComEHS will be holding its open meeting today at 1730 in room 4/5. Do join us to discuss our plans for the future and to share your ideas!
Tariffs and, specifically, manufacturing tariffs were uncorrelated with economic growth amongst the Australian colonies: https://t.co/bo3JOcxyV8
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🚨We are recruiting!
If you consider a PhD in Economic/Business History this is for you!
🎯 Fully funded incl. social security
🎯 2 position in Economic History, 1 in Business History
🎯 Friendly and supportive environment
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Today LSE's own Noah Sutter (@NoahWSutter) presented his paper "A Testament to Revolution - New Data on Wealth at Death and Wealth Elasticity Estimates for France, 1791-1870" in our graduate seminar.