Now on the Long Run: 'Market Tolls and Toll Disputes in Early Modern England'. Hillary Taylor (Padua) introduces their research project funded by an award from the Carnevali Small Research Grants Scheme. ehs.org.uk/market-tolls...

New EHS Schools and Colleges Committee Initiative ‘The History Ledger’ provides videos and resources to those teaching and studying A-Level economic history courses. The material may also be of interest to Undergraduate students in economic and social history. ehs.org.uk/society/scho...

The EHS invites nominations for a prize for the outstanding teaching of economic history to secondary school students (Key stage 3/4). One £500 prize, will be awarded biennially. Application Deadline: 15 Dec Nominees must be current School Teachers. More info & to apply: ehs.org.uk/award/teachi...

Now on the Long Run: 'Fascist Policy and the Great Depression in Italy'. Gino Magnini (Edinburgh) introduces their research, which was supported by an EHS Research Fund for Graduate Students grant. ehs.org.uk/fascist-poli... ehs.org.uk/award/resear...

Now on the Long Run: The Impact of Interest Rates in Eighteenth Century Ireland Paul Kelly introduces his research, which utilises material from the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, access to which has been supported by the EHS Research Fund for Graduate Students ehs.org.uk/the-impact-o...

Now on the Long Run: 'From British Rule to Boardrooms: Community in India’s Corporate Economy, 1920s-1970s'. Pallavi Padma-Uday (QUB) discusses the key themes in her doctoral thesis in Indian economic history, which has has been supported by the EHS’ Bursary Scheme for PhD students.

Registration remains open for the EHS Women’s Committee, Publishing & Grants Made Simple online training event to be held 10/10/2025, 11:00am-1:00pm. It will cover strategies for publication in journals and books and how to secure funding for future research projects. ehs.org.uk/event/womens...

Now on the Long Run: 'Adapting Glassmaking Knowledge and Labour Structures in Early Modern Britain'. Oliver Gunning (Northumbria) introduces their research, which was assisted by the EHS Research Fund for Graduate Students. ehs.org.uk/adapting-gla... ehs.org.uk/award/resear...

The Economic History Review now has its own Bluesky account! Be sure to follow @echistsocreview.bsky.social for updates on the latest available articles. The Review publishes peer-reviewed advanced research on all aspects of economic and social history from around the world and from all periods.

Now on the Long Run: 'Community, Educational Reform and Migration in Late Imperial China'. Christoph Hess, who studied for his PhD at the University of Cambridge, introduces his research, which was assisted by the Research Fund for Graduate Students of the Economic History Society.

Now on Early View: 'Felons’ chattels and English living standards in the later fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.' By Chris Briggs, Ben Jervis, Alice Forward, Tomasz Gromelski & Matthew Tompkins. @cam.ac.uk @archanchistleic.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Now on the Long Run: 'Women, Money and Markets (1600-1950), 2023 Conference'. Sarah Dredge (Sheffield Hallam) introduces the Women, Money and Markets (1600-1950) 2023 Conference, 12-14 June 2023, which received financial support from the Economic History Society. ehs.org.uk/women-money-...

Now on the Long Run: 'The Barbados Census of 1679 and the Legacies of Slavery in Early Modern England'. In this post Michael Bennett (Sheffield) & Misha Ewen (Sussex) introduce their research, which was financially supported by a Carnevali Small Research Grant. ehs.org.uk/the-barbados...

Now on Early View: 'Wealth inequality and epidemics in the Republic of Venice (1400–1800)'. By Guido Alfani, Matteo Di Tullio & Mattia Fochesato. @guidoalfani.bsky.social‬ ‪@stone-lis.bsky.social‬ @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Now on the Long Run: 'From Records to Riches - An Automated Pipeline for Transcribing the Tables des Successions et Absences, 1790-1870'. In this post, Aurelius Noble and Noah Sutter (LSE) introduce their research, which was financially supported by a Carnevali Small Research Grant.

The @echistsoc.bsky.social Women’s Committee is organising an online training event on academic publication and grants applications process on 10th Oct 2025. More details and how to register👇 ehs.org.uk/event/womens...

Reminder: Deadline Friday! Applications for the EHS Residential Training Course for Postgraduate Students close at 16:00 (UK time) Friday 12 September. 12 part-funded places are available on this course which will be held at the University of Warwick, 3–6 December 2025. For more info and to apply:

Now on the Long Run: 'The occupational structure of twentieth-century China: Evidence from lineage genealogies'. In this post Ying Dai (University of Oxford) discusses her ongoing research, supported by an EHS Carnevali Small Research Grant. ehs.org.uk/the-occupati... ehs.org.uk/award/carnev...

Now on Early View: 'Religious politics and the limits of redistribution: The rise and fall of family allowances in Spain, 1926–58'. By Guillem Verd-Llabrés. @uicbarcelona.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Deadline Friday! Applications for the EHS Residential Training Course for Postgraduate Students close at 16:00 (UK time) Friday 12 September. 12 part-funded places are available on this course which will be held at the University of Warwick, 3–6 December 2025. For more info and to apply:

Now on the Long Run: 'Re-Writing the History of Commercial Capital'. It presents the forthcoming ‘Political Economy of Capital in the Pre-Modern World’ workshop, which is funded by the EHS Conference Fund, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and the Baden-Württemberg Ministry of Science.

Now on Early View: 'Telegraph and capital market integration: Evidence from late imperial China'. By Yu Hao & Yuxiang Wang. ‪@pku1898.bsky.social‬ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Now on the Long Run: 'A Chronic Affliction: Capital Mobilisation in the Wartime Japanese Empire'. In this post Tsz Ho Wong (University of Edinburgh) discusses their ongoing research, supported by the EHS Research Fund for Graduate Students. ehs.org.uk/a-chronic-af... ehs.org.uk/award/resear...

Applications for the EHS Residential Training Course for Postgraduate Students close 16:00 (UK time) Friday, 12 September. 12 part-funded places are available on this course which will be held at the University of Warwick, 3–6 December 2025. For more info and to apply: ehs.org.uk/society/stud...

Now on Early View: 'Strategic materials and state capacity in Renaissance Italy. The economic policies of ‘Roman saltpetre’ procurement'. By Fabrizio Antonio Ansani. ‪@kingshistory.bsky.social‬ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Now on the Long Run: 'Letters to Marie Stopes: Seeking Birth Control Advice in Scotland, 1918-1930'. In this post Barbara Gabeler (Edinburgh with cross-institutional supervision at Glasgow) discusses their ongoing research, supported by the EHS Research Fund for Graduate Students.

Now on the Long Run: 'Women in finance in modern Britain'. James Taylor (Lancaster) discusses their new book, supported by an EHS Carnevali Small Research Grant. ehs.org.uk/women-in-fin... ehs.org.uk/award/carnev...

Now on the Long Run: 'The new poor law and the health of the population of England and Wales'. By David Green, Gabriel Mesevage, Graham Mooney & Simon Szreter. ‪@kings-sga.bsky.social‬ ‪@kingshistory.bsky.social‬ ‪@jhu.edu‬ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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. ehs.org.uk/sulphur-gove...

Now on Early View: 'The cost of the consumer revolution: Prices, material living standards, and real inequality in Amsterdam (1630‒1805)'. By Bas Spliet & Anne E. C. McCants. @urbanhistoryua.bsky.social‬ @shoc-vub.bsky.social‬ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Now on Early View: 'Macroeconomic policymaking in interwar Britain: A reappraisal'. By David Ronicle. ‪@boeresearch.bsky.social‬ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Now on the Long Run Blog: 'The Centre for South-East European Economic History – Summer School in Quantitative Economic History'. This post describes the inaugural summer school held by the Centre between 9 and 11 July 2025 at the University of Zagreb, which was supported by the EHS.

Now on the Long Run Blog: 'Decolonising development with Ifá tradition'. Luqma Temitayo Onikosi of the University of Brighton discusses their ongoing research, supported by the EHS Research Fund for Graduate Students.  ehs.org.uk/decolonising...

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. More info & to apply:

Now on the Long Run Blog: 'Latin America’s Southern Cone during the Bretton Woods Era (1945-1971)'. Uziel Gonzalez-Aliaga (Oxford) discusses their ongoing research, supported by the EHS Research Fund for Graduate Students.  ehs.org.uk/latin-americ...

Now on the Long Run Blog: 'Commodities and the role of British capital in shaping the financial markets of Sicily 1816-1861'. Alex Cooper (University of Leicester) discusses his ongoing doctoral research, supported by the EHS Research Fund for Graduate Students. ehs.org.uk/commodities-...

Now on the Long Run Blog: '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 Annual Conference of the EHS.

The call for papers, sessions and posters for the 2026 EHS Conference is now open! The conference will be held at the Cheng Kin Ku (CKK) building, London School of Economics, 10 – 12 April. Paper proposals must be received by 15 September 2025, poster proposals by 17 November. ehs.org.uk/conference/

Now on Early View: 'Income taxes and redistribution in the early twentieth century'. By Sara Torregrosa-Hetland & Oriol Sabaté. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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. More info & to apply: ehs.org.uk/award/bursar...

Now on the Long Run Blog: '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 Economic History Society has helped his doctoral research.

Now on the Long Run Blog: 'Post-war American technological transfers to Britain and Italy'. William Ciptonugroho (Cambridge) introduces his recent research on the Marshall Plan, which was financially supported by the Economic History Society through its Research Fund for Graduate Students.

Now on the Long Run Blog: 'Agrarian roots of capitalism in England, c. 1550-1850'. Joshua Rhodes (Durham) describes his research on the agrarian roots of capitalism in the early-modern period, which was financially supported by the EHS' Carnevali Small Research Grants ehs.org.uk/agrarian-roo...

Now on the Long Run Blog: 'Early Modern Capitalism: Trade, Risk and Profit'. Maxine Berg (Warwick) sets out the themes of a one-day workshop of the History of Capitalism Project held at Brasenose College, Oxford, in April 2024 on some of the parameters and practices of early modern capitalism.

Now on Early View: 'Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia'. By Leonard Kukić & Yasin Arslantas. @yasinarslantas.bsky.social‬ ‪@univie.ac.at‬ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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 Society’s Research Fund for Graduate Students helped her fund trips to the archives for her MPhil dissertation.

Now on Early View: 'The War of the Pacific and Chilean public revenues: Reallocation of the tax burden and institutional change'. By Oriol Sabaté & José Peres-Cajías. @ub.edu onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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👇 ehs.org.uk/event/womens...