Job news - I am off to the @UKHouseofLords to join @eddavey.libdems.org.uk's team of peers. I look forward to working hard to hold the government to account...
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Exploring the past to shape the future 🌍📜📈 Follow for research & talks by world-class scholars. Blog: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/economichistory/
We are delighted to announce that our alumna @miattafahnbulleh.bsky.social (PhD Economic History) was appointed Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero. Congratulations! 🥳 Find out more here: www.gov.uk/government/p...
The Rt Hon Miatta Fahnbulleh MP
Miatta Fahnbulleh was appointed Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero on 20 July 2026. She was previously Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Housing, Communities a...
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👀ICYMI | "It is this interaction between sources and questions that drives our field and is an important part of being a historian. I think that is something that will really resonate with students encountering economic history for the first time" #SkyStorians #EconSky @lseechist.bsky.social
Who teaches the teachers? How economic history can enhance teaching of the British Empire - LSE Impact
Teaching Empire in the UK is contentious. Can linking teachers to the latest economic history research provide more diverse perspectives on the British Empire?
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Congratulations, Class of 2026! 🎓🎉 Economic History graduates can visit the 3rd floor, Sardinia House for a special Alumni mug - free while stocks last! Then, visit the Alumni Centre for tote bags, pin badges, popcorn and a spin on the prize wheel 🎡 ✨ Wishing all our graduates a brilliant day 💜
The Department of Economic History joined forces with secondary school teachers from The Historical Association's Teacher Fellowship Programme to show how economic history can transform the way British history is taught in classrooms. Find out more here: www.facebook.com/share/v/17iL...
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Celebrating Mary Morgan’s scholarship today and discussing her next book at @lseechist.bsky.social 🙌🙌🙌 Full programme ➡️ www.lse.ac.uk/economic-his...
Congratulations to our @hggaddy.bsky.social! Amazing achievement with an exciting piece of research 🥳
IPUMS@ipums.bsky.social · 3mo agoIPUMS International Student Award is a tie! * @hggaddy.bsky.social for "High rates of polygyny do not lock large proportions of men out of the marriage market" (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...).
Now on Early View: ‘Elbow grease and yellow soap’: Housework time in working-class households in late-nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain. By Sara Horrell and Jane Humphries. @lseechist.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk #EHS100 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Housework is central to feminist calls for recognition of women's work, economic histories explaining the sexual division of labour, and claims regarding the progressive role of scientific knowledge....
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Join us for this year's Epstein Lecture, where we host some of the most exciting economic history research! This year's edition features Paula Gobbi (ECARES), who discusses how #inheritance patterns change economies and societies 💰👨👩👧👦 #lseevents #echist www.lse.ac.uk/events/devel...
Inheritance, demographics, and economic development | Paula Gobbi
6.30pm Thurs 21 May | Professor Paula Gobbi, Professor Sara Horrell | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
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🗺️ @msaleh-econhistory.bsky.social and Tirthankar Roy are featured in this month's LSE Research for the World, about a project they undertook with @leighgardnereh.bsky.social to develop tools for teaching about colonialism in UK schools 🏫 Read the article here 👇 www.lse.ac.uk/research/res...
Teaching colonialism through evidence-based tools I LSE Research
LSE researchers collaborated with the Historical Association to design evidence‑based tools for teaching colonialism in UK classrooms. Their project introduces structured methods to explore incentives...
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📖 How did modern #Capitalism emerge and how has it evolved over the centuries? 🪙 Join us this Wednesday as @svenbeckert.bsky.social explores these big questions through his latest book. lse.ac.uk/events/capit... #lseevents #history #echist #rmiliband
Capitalism: a global history | Book launch
6:30pm Wed 25 Mar | Sven Beckert | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
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Don't miss today at 6pm our #AtkinsonLecture on the economic history of #caringlabour by Jane Humphries @lseechist.bsky.social sticerd.lse.ac.uk/_new/events/...
Who cares? Towards an economic history of caring labour | Jane Humphries | Wednesday 18 March 2026 18:00 - 19:30 | STICERD Event
An event from the STICERD Public Events and Lectures series organised by STICERD
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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
🌱Do global environmental improvements require “de-growth?” Are a robust economy and a healthy environment inherently at odds? Our speaker, Spencer Banzhaf, will discuss the relationship between our economy and nature on Thursday 🎙️ www.lse.ac.uk/economic-his... #lse #echist
The economics of nature and the nature of economics
6.30pm Thur 19 March | Professor Spencer Banzhaf, Professor Eric Schneider | Ticket Required | Free public event at LSE
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What makes innovation possible?🧪And what can we learn from Joel Mokyr's work? Join us on this exciting, @nobelprize.org themed roundtable with @sdepleijt.bsky.social, Alessandro Nuvolari, @patrickwallis.bsky.social and Joan Roses on the Industrial Revolution 🏭 www.lse.ac.uk/economic-his...
What makes innovation possible? Insights from the Industrial Revolution
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📜New working paper: Why did Socialist countries join an explicitly Capitalist trade treaty and how did it impact them? Between 1966 and 1973, four Eastern bloc countries acceded to the GATT. Using a gravity model, I estimate the impact of this historical curiosity. 1/3 🧵
What has our department been up to in 2025 🗺️📈? Check it out here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/economichist... #lse #echist
Economic History in 2025 - Economic History
The past year saw LSE's economic historians address some of the discipline's most enduring puzzles. How do states consolidate control? Can societies escape their geographic destiny? When crisis strike...
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In the @lselibrary.bsky.social archives with the students 🔬📜 ✏️ #Beveridge #Webb @lseechist.bsky.social
Last month, we hosted the launch of Malika Zeghal's book, The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East, with @lseechist.bsky.social. Missed it? You can watch the discussion here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=keMk... @shertog.bsky.social @msaleh-econhistory.bsky.social
This week @nickfitzhenry.bsky.social, class teacher on the course "Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa", took his students on a field trip to see the Cambridge Cairo Genizah collection - famous from Greif's paper on The Maghribi Traders' Coalition - and the Fitzwilliam 📜🔎
LSE marks 130 years celebrating scholars who shaped our history. @lseechist.bsky.social Prof Janet Hunter (former STICERD Deputy Director) reflects on Michio Morishima, whose vision and leadership founded STICERD as a successful multidisciplinary centre. blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2...
Michio Morishima, economics and LSE - LSE History
Michio Morishima (1923-2004) was an internationally renowned economist from Japan. He accepted his first post at LSE in 1970 and was founding Chair of STICERD research centre in 1978.
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@msaleh-econhistory.bsky.social will be one of the featured speakers at LSE's next World Cafe 🌍 event, 'Decolonising knowledge and education'. Open to all #LSE students and staff, you can find out more here: info.lse.ac.uk/staff/servic...
Upcoming events
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Do not miss out on this exciting event tomorrow evening with @msaleh-econhistory.bsky.social, @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social and the Cohesive Capitalism Programme 📖
LSE Department of Economic History@lseechist.bsky.social · 8mo agoJoin us and the @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social for the launch of Malika Zeghal's latest book "The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa", moderated by @msaleh-econhistory.bsky.social.📕🌍 More info here: www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-... #lseevents #lse
Once again, our department's PhD students met for the annual Book Secret Santa. Our students have proven that their reading tastes cover a wide range of genres, periods, and topics... Many of them feature a connection to economic history and economic themes. Let's dive in! (1/10)
Join us and the @lsemiddleeast.bsky.social for the launch of Malika Zeghal's latest book "The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa", moderated by @msaleh-econhistory.bsky.social.📕🌍 More info here: www.lse.ac.uk/middle-east-... #lseevents #lse
"The Making of the Modern Muslim State: Islam and Governance in the Middle East and North Africa"
7.00pm Wednesday 28 January | Malika Zeghal, Steffen Hertog, Mohamed Saleh | LSE
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@patrickwallis.bsky.social's work on apprenticeship was featured in LSE's Research for the World magazine. Grab a coffee and read it here: lnkd.in/e3eiCFz9
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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
The history of UK debt
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Class activity of the day: economic history themed visit of the National Gallery 🖼️🚂💰 @lseechist.bsky.social
Did #Socialism really fail at delivering economic results? In our newest #Blog, @neubertmagnus.bsky.social gives a more nuanced story showing the relative success of #Yugoslavia after 1945 📈 blogs.lse.ac.uk/economichist...
What if socialism worked? - Economic History
A common quip about socialism holds that “it works in theory but never in practice”. Magnus Neubert examines the merit of this saying by exploring how labour-managed socialism in Yugoslavia functioned...
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Excited to share my recent WP with Alan de Bromhead & @ronanlyons.bsky.social Build Better Health: Evidence from Ireland on Housing Quality and Mortality cepr.org/publications... via @cepr.org
DP20725 Build Better Health: Evidence from Ireland on Housing Quality and Mortality
Poor housing conditions, and the negative effects of Household Air Pollution (HAP) in particular, remain one of the most pressing global public health challenges. While the association between poor housing and health has a long history, evidence of a direct link is lacking. In this paper, we examine a rare example of a public housing intervention in rural areas, namely the large-scale provision of high-quality housing in Ireland in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. We exploit a novel dataset of deaths-by-disease and deaths-by-age-and-sex over the period 1871–1919, to test the impact of the intervention on mortality. Our difference-in difference estimates indicate that improved housing conditions reduced mortality by as much as 1 death per 1000. This effect is driven by reductions in deaths from respiratory diseases. We propose a likely mechanism that is consistent with the pattern of results we observe: a reduction in Household Air Pollution through improved housing quality and better ventilation. A cost-benefit analysis reveals that the scheme was a highly cost-effective intervention.
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