@vnbateman
Author of #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power (an FT Best Book of 2025). Resident economic historian on BBC Radio 4 #UnderstandTheEconomy. Fellow of the Royal Historical Society & RSA.
Happy Women in History Month! @vnbateman.bsky.social and @1autumnleaf.bsky.social have a little miniseries surprise for you on Fridays this month! Check out this week's episode on Priscilla Wakefield
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#Economica 📗 at the British Museum this evening - as captured by the brilliant www.olgawaller.art
Excited to be heading to the British Museum this evening, where I’m going to be talking about my latest book, #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power @headlinebooks.bsky.social @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social #InternationalWomensDay2026 #WomensHistoryMonth
Elizabeth Norton and I will be putting women at the heart of history at #WinchesterBookFestival this April. Do come along if you’re nearby - would be lovely to see you there: winchesterbooksfestival.com/events/dr-vi...
#womenshistorymonth #internationalwomensweek
Looking forward to being “In Conversation” with Elizabeth Norton very soon: winchesterbooksfestival.com/events/dr-vi...
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.
Coming your way this #InternationalWomensWeek #IWD2026 #WomensHistoryMonth2026
Book cover: Economica-a global history of women, wealth and power, by Victoria Bateman
“Once you add women and stir, our understanding of the past changes forever”
Very much enjoying @vnbateman.bsky.social writing women back into our economic history
The real life love story that shattered class barriers in Regency Britain. Are you #Bridgerton ready? #BridgertonSeason4 @netflix.com
It started with a seemingly innocuous assumption, an easily made logical leap: For a rather long time, archeologists who found burial sites with weapons or hunting gear inside would label the remains as male.
Fresh new piece:
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Turns out when we assume things in history, we end up with cake on our faces. If you don't feel like reading my latest piece, here's a quick vid of me explaining it and playing to the youtube gods.
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Want to know how women made the world wealthy? Want to see history through the eyes of female entrepreneurs, traders, inventors & bankers? #Economica 📗 will be out in paperback on 2 July @headlinebooks.bsky.social. Preorder now to get 25% off @waterstones.bsky.social #WPreorder #womenwealthpower
I’m excited to announce that #Economica 📗 will be published @headlinebooks.bsky.social as a paperback on 2nd July and, if you pre-order, you can get 25% off online @waterstones.bsky.social between now and Friday. Just enter “FEB26” at the checkout. #WPreorder
Was gonna paint my kitchen today. Wrote this instead. www.broadhistory.com/the-housewif...
Introducing three of my favourite couples from business history for #ValentinesDay
An honour to be interviewed by the brilliant @isabelleroughol.com for #BroadHistory
Thank you for hosting me this week @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social for my latest book #Economica 📗 - a wonderful opportunity to see all of the sights, including @stalbanscathedral.bsky.social, the clocktower and the Roman museum. A beautiful and historic city.
The economy is not - and never has been - just for men. #Economica on #BroadHistory @isabelleroughol.com
What are you doing tonight at 7pm? Would you like to hear an economic history of the world from the Stone Age to the present - all in 1 hour? If so, come along @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social or join online: shop.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/products/mus.... No economics needed and for all ages. #Economica
History can be our greatest ammunition: #Economica on #BroadHistory podcast @isabelleroughol.com
The fascinating history of #StAlbans, where I’ll be speaking @stalbansmuseums.bsky.social on 11 February. Do join me in person or online: www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/eco... #Economica #womenwealthpower
Maybe economic success isn't rocket science? @vnbateman.bsky.social
Women were engineered out of the workforce. It wasn't an accident. The myth of the housewife as some natural and eternal state of being is one that drives me up the wall every time.
Full episode out soon, sign up at broadhistory.com.
📷 @lselibrary.bsky.social & National Portrait Gallery, London
Want to know more about the history of the Welfare State - how we moved from the dreaded Dickensian workhouses to a modern welfare system? Let me introduce you to the #PowerCouple of social reform in Late Victorian and Edwardian Britain: Beatrice & Sidney Webb. #Economica #womenwealthpower
Throughout history, women have been on the front line of protests, strikes and revolutions across the world. #Economica #womenwealthpower
Restrictions on freedom of movement have always been used to limit opportunities, including in colonial South Africa. It was #OnThisDay that South African women delivered a petition to overturn #PassLaws. The struggle continued, culminating in a 1956 Women’s March sahistory.org.za/article/1956....
Nena Vandeweerdt discussing her new book “Women and Work Through a Comparative Lens: Gender and the Urban Labor Markets of Premodern Brabant and Biscay” - a fascinating insight into the regulation of women’s work in premodern Europe podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/n... @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social
Today’s mail brought me this new book by the inordinately talented @vnbateman.bsky.social. It promises a thorough stocktaking of women’s central role in the economy, “from the caves to the computers.” Thanks Victoria for sending it! #Econsky
Sneak peak... first episode of the new pod with the fantastic @vnbateman.bsky.social in the editing bay... 🎉 Sign up for launch updates at broadhistory.com
