Episode 3 of Everything Economic History is now live!
Join @judyzara.bsky.social for a great chat about wages and working conditions in eighteenth century Britain and the lessons they have for today
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Now on BlueSky, The International Earl Engine Conference (IEEC) can update on progress for our March 2026 Conference in Bristol (IEEC4). The proposed papers have been updated, but the call continues until the end of Oct 2025! #HistSci #Newcomen #IEEC4
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DRAFT: A Small, Intensive, Data-Sciencey Seminar in Long-Run Economic History
I have decided on my teaching next semester: two things that are half-courses (half of grad student intro to economic history, and the economic-history outside-speakers seminar)β¦
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Cannot recommend this highly enough for PhD students, having benefitted from the residential training course myself several years ago!
The @echistsoc.bsky.social βs PhD residential training course literally changes careers for the betterβ¦ apply here ehs.org.uk/society/stud...
Should the introduction mention that? Footnote to refer to the 550 words on it in chapter 4?
(Totally distracted by the Saxon coin thing by the way! )
β¦redrafted for consistency, style, and to explain what you meant by the reference to the 1745 Jacobite rising in the bit about the silk weaversβ¦. (to yourself)
Now on the Long Run Blog:
'Investigating U.S. Imperialism in Haiti through its Railways, 1909-1934'.
Georgia Davison of the University of Cambridge writes about how the Economic History Societyβs Research Fund for Graduate Students helped her fund trips to the archives for her MPhil dissertation.
Employing village-level data from the Ottoman tax registers of 1468/1604, this article finds that settlements with lower income per household were more likely to convert. It hypothesizes the poll tax stimulated the poorer Bosnians to adopt Islam upon the Ottoman conquest of their region.
Now on Early View: 'Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia'.
By Leonard KukiΔ & Yasin Arslantas.
@yasinarslantas.bsky.socialβ¬ βͺ@univie.ac.atβ¬
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The District Line IS www.savewimbledonpark.org this morning. Godspeed.
Iβve had this sort of problem many times. I think I wasnβt paying it enough.
Thousands of other similarly ill-thought out decisions, concerning everything from vaccinations to infection control, fly under the radar. We are well past peak health, and on our way to becoming a sicker society.
Hoorah !
Our working paper is out!
Now on Early View: 'Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and PolishβLithuanian partitions in the Baltics'.
By Theocharis N. Grigoriadis & Alise Vitola.
βͺ@theocharisgr.bsky.socialβ¬ βͺ@osteuropainstitut.bsky.socialβ¬ @freieuniversitaet.bsky.socialβ¬
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Now on here π₯³! The 99 1/2 year old best economic history Society in the world ;)
We find some new stuff about the Black Death and the Industrial Revolution! #econhis
There's so much in here that historians can tear apart, but I'd like to point to just one bit of specious comparison: a brief reference to indexing.
Historians always bristle at deterministic economic models (regressions) for predicting historical data⦠so ⦠ta dah⦠@mmpaker.bsky.social and @patrickwallis.bsky.social and I took the biggest data set and predicted it by machine learning instead www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His... !
A reminder of this eveningβs Aaron Graham lecture from Professor Pat Hudson. Supported by the Economic History Society and UCL History. @patrickwallis.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
Itβs publication day. Available from wherever you prefer to buy your books/ebooks/audiobooks.
Exciting new book to buy
My dept has a big opening for a school manager www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
Professor Philip Schofield (Bentham Project, UCL Laws), Professor Judy Stephenson (UCL BSSC), and Dr Xine Yao (UCL English), feature in a new UCL Press Play documentary entitled 'The Greatest Good: Benthamβs Defence of Sexual Liberty'. πΊπ
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My student ! Success has many parents! But Joshua was one of my first undergrads. Of course he did! Heβs great! π congratulations Josh !
REMINDER: We offer bursaries of up to Β£500 per head to support UK-based postgraduate and early career researchers to arrange panels on London-related topics for academic conferences. See here for further details on how to apply (please repost to help spread the word!)
Janet Yellen.
If you are a senior woman in a male-dominated field and youβre about to do something public-facing, studies suggest you should silence the inner voice whispering that the audience might dismiss or discount your expertise, writes Sarah O'Connor www.ft.com/content/eda3...
