The Economic History Society today celebrates its centenary with a major international conference, unveiling new research that reshapes our understanding of the economic past On the Long Run we highlight some new papers by Assaf Abraham, Daniel Sanchez, Marco Cokić, Cyril Thomson and Sara Benetti

Great conference on cross-border payments at St Hilda’s College, Oxford! Thank you for two days of engaging presentations and a fantastic keynote by Linda Goldberg (FRB New York) on global liquidity flows @oxford-esh.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social #econhist #EconSky #GloCoBank

Looking forward to this session today:

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How can humanities research speak to the needs of present policy? Join the conversation with Professors Patrick Salmon and Patricia Clavin! @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social @oxpolicyengaged.bsky.social @torchoxford.bsky.social 🗓️ Tuesday 25 February, 17:00 - 18:30 talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/be4...

Join us at St Hilda's College, Oxford, for a two-day conference on 'Cross-Border Payments in Historical Perspective' (27-28 March), with an ECR/Doctoral Workshop on 26 March and a Keynote Lecture by Linda Goldberg (Federal Reserve Bank of New York) @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social #GloCoBank

Excited to start this new chapter at Oxford in the ERC-funded project on the history of Global Correspondent Banking (#GloCoBank). Looking forward to working with Catherine Schenk and the wider team. @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social

Happy to say my new book, “Controlling Contagion”, comes out next month. 700 years of tackling pandemics. Not all bad news… press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Controlling Contagion

How human institutions—markets, states, communities, religions, guilds and families—have helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics throughout history.

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I looked at the endangered archives programme with my students today. A great resource for historians of all kinds: eap.bl.uk

Welcome to the Endangered Archives Programme

The Endangered Archives Programme (EAP) facilitates the digitisation of archives around the world that are in danger of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration.

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Jane Whittle presenting today at the LSE Economic History seminar. A fascinating paper on the gender wage gap in medieval and Early Modern English agriculture.

CALL FOR PAPERS: 'British History Today' Conference, 1-2 May 2025. Great to see this initiative from colleagues in the new Queen Mary Centre for British Studies. See the link and below for details. Proposals due on 24 January 2025. projects.history.qmul.ac.uk/qmcbs/

This year's Duncan Tanner Prize is now open! If you're a PGR/ECR working on an article on modern British history do consider entering! #skystorians 🗃️ academic.oup.com/tcbh/pages/e...

Duncan Tanner Prize 2024

The Duncan Tanner Prize recognizes outstanding scholarship amongst postgraduate research students in Britain and abroad. Entrants submit an article manuscript.

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Historical Political Economy has new home @ Harvard's Center for European Studies! A new seminar series co-chaired by leaders in the field @vcharnysh @YuhuaWang5 @CChiopris & grad students Daniel Lowery, @JhengShao, M. Weigand). Great line-up this year. See: ces.fas.harvard.edu/study-groups...

Happy to be speaking at next year's World Economic History Congress panel on Memories and Perceptions of Financial Crises. Thanks to the organisers, and looking forward to meeting in Lund next July. #WEHC2025 wehc2025.com #LSEEcHist

Anyone wanting to do research on business/organisational records who doesn't have access to funding can apply to the Business Archives Council's Research Support Bursary, simple Googleform to apply by 20/9 businessarchivescouncil.org.uk/activitiesob... Please fo contact me with any questions!

CamPop (Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure) turns 60, and launches a blog: www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/ BBC news on CamPop: www.bbc.com/news/article... #History 🗃️

Cambridge University 'bust myths' about family, sex and work

Myths about the past include no sex outside marriage or few women working away from home, say experts.

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Great to see Gillian Tett's Financial Times column commenting on insights from our recent conference on crisis memories @FT #LSE #economichistory: www.ft.com/content/1058...

Many thanks to participants of the financial crisis workshop at @LSE yesterday. A pleasure to be on the Scientific Committee with Youssef Cassis, Olivier Accominotti and the MERCATOR team, and to hear Gillian Tett's keynote talk on trust during financial crises. #economichistory #LSE

Conference Call for Papers closes tomorrow for Perceptions, Memories & Analyses of Financial Crises in a Long-Run Perspective: www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His... #economichistory #LSE

Delighted to be on Scientific Committee of MERCATOR conference at LSE. CfP on Perceptions, Memories & Analyses of Financial Crises in a Long-Run Perspective, June 2024: www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His... #economichistory #LSE