In conversation with Harriet MacMillan about my new book #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power (@headlinebooks.bsky.social) 📗 at Glasgow’s #AyeWrite Literary Festival today, answering the question: What can women do in response to the current backlash?

‘A central theme [of @vnbateman.bsky.social’s book] is that the trajectory of gender equality more closely resembles a roller-coaster than a straight line. There are places (Egypt, Iran, India) where women have fewer freedoms than they did many centuries ago.’ Great set of reviews on.ft.com/4olyOut

Delighted that the FT have reviewed my new book, #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power. The reviewer writes “Economica is an epic…[&] important retelling of global economic history that puts women at the centre”. Out now @headlinebooks.bsky.social @hachetteuk.bsky.social #EconHist

An absolute pleasure to speak @greshamcollege.bsky.social today. Full lecture available to watch now. #Economica #womenwealthpower m.youtube.com/watch?v=kZcd...

Was lovely to see Dr Bateman @vnbateman.bsky.social lecturing at Gresham College today on How Women Made the Global Economy. Based on lessons from her new book, Economica, Dr Bateman explained the central role women have played as entrepreneurs, industrialists, and leaders across time and societies

Look forward to speaking @greshamcollege.bsky.social London tomorrow at 1pm. Free to attend but only a few tickets remaining, so please book now if you’d like to attend (in person or online): www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/wom... #EconHist

An honour to be interviewed by ⁦‪Julia Wheeler‬⁩ on stage ⁦at Stratford Literary Festival‬⁩ today. A huge thank you to Julia, to the organisers, to the volunteers - and to the wonderful audience for a sold out event. #StratLitFest #Economica #womenwealthpower

At Stratford Literary Festival today - for a SOLD OUT discussion with Julia Wheeler about my new book #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power. You can find out more about the women of Economica - along with the book’s core message - at women-wealth-power.com/explore #womenwealthpower

October's book recommendations over at Beyond Curie. Including picks from Rosa Espinoza, Rae Wynn-Grant, Sarah Ruden, @vnbateman.bsky.social and @christinewebb.bsky.social My newsletter is free open.substack.com/pub/oliviaca...

Speaking to the legendary Dr Martin Latham @waterstones.bsky.social Canterbury about my new book #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power #womenwealthpower @headlinebooks.bsky.social

My latest for @historyextra.bsky.social‬⁩: “The Real History Behind The Forsytes: How Much Of The Drama Is True?” | HistoryExtra #EconHist #LateVictorian #PeriodDrama #TheForsytes www.historyextra.com/period/victo...

It will be a huge honour to deliver the 2026 #HajnalLecture at the University of Manchester. It will also be something of a homecoming: Manchester was not only the place I grew up, it shaped my love of Economic History. #Manchester #EconHist @manchester.ac.uk #ArthurLewisLab @nunopgpalma.bsky.social

From Bath to Canterbury in one day - the #Economica book tour is underway. Looking forward to Stratford-upon-Avon this Friday followed by Brighton, Oxford, London & Glasgow next week.

The perfect pair 📗📕 #Economica & #womenwhoruledtheworld

Why women protestors brought Ancient Rome to a standstill #Economica #womenwealthpower #econhist

One of the secrets of #StPetersBasilica #VaticanCity: Bernini’s sculpture of a woman representing #NakedTruth with her toe on Britain, as a sign of disapproval.

Want to know more about the work of the #NobelPrize-winning economic historian #JoelMokyr? Read Chapter 8 of my new book - #Economica - or my review of Mokyr’s “A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy” here: www.timeshighereducation.com/books/review...

TONIGHT at 6pm in Cambridge 📗📚 Can’t wait to introduce you to some of my favourite female entrepreneurs, merchants, bankers and economic revolutionaries from the past - the women who made the global economy. And I can promise free bookmarks! #Economica #womenwealthpower

Excited to be speaking at #Heffers in #Cambridge tomorrow - the first week of the new academic year. Last chance to book tickets if you’re able to come along: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/economica-... Look forward to seeing you there if so. #Economica #womenwealthpower

What if the real reason Britain got rich wasn’t coal, colonies, or clever inventors… but women with wages in their pockets? @vnbateman.bsky.social joins us on @breakingmath.bsky.social to rewrite the story of prosperity. #math #economics #academicsky #science Listen now: youtu.be/-n_f1XdloHU?...

At the National Portrait Gallery, placing women at the heart of Economic History. Launching my new book, #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power, out now @headlinebooks.bsky.social #womenwealthpower

My latest interview is out now: www.theskylark.org/post/victori... A pleasure to speak to Charlotte Owen-Burge #womenwealthpower #Economica

Anyone else going Cambridge people?

In #Cambridge this Thursday? Want to hear how women made the global economy? Do come along to #Heffers to hear me talk about my new book, #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power (@headlinebooks.bsky.social). Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/economica-...

Introducing my favourite feminist from history - the rebellious, clever & unashamed #MaryWollstonecraft - at the launch of my new book, #Economica: A Global history of Women, Wealth & Power @headlinebooks.bsky.social @hachetteuk.bsky.social. It goes to show that women have never been #tradwives.

An enormous pleasure to be interviewed by the brilliant Mishal Husain at Bloomberg’s “Davos for Women” this week, discussing my new book, #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power (published in the US this week by Basic Books / Seal Press) #BBGWomenMoneyPower

🎉🎉🎉 My new book, #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power is published in the US today (Basic Books / Seal Press). A huge thank you to @benchu.bsky.social @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social @peterfrankopan.bsky.social @timharford.ft.com @enortonhistory.bsky.social for your kind endorsements.

This one’s sharp, provocative, and timely. 🎧 Listen to our full conversation with Dr Victoria Bateman @vnbateman.bsky.social on Breaking Math Podcast @breakingmath.bsky.social 💬 And tell us: What do you think economists still get wrong about women and growth? youtu.be/-n_f1XdloHU?...

📡 Such a pleasure to speak to @1autumnleaf.bsky.social @breakingmath.bsky.social podcast about my new book - published today in the US - #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power (Seal Press / Basic Books). #econhist

A pleasure to speak and sign copies of my new book, #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power at Guildford Book Festival today. Thank you to everyone who came along. #womenwealthpower

Really enjoyed chatting with @nickshepley.bsky.social - available now to listen 👇 (with a super write up here: explaininghistory.org/2025/09/25/e...) #womenwealthpower

You can listen to me discussing my new book - #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power - on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast with the fabulous Miranda Melcher: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/v... #womenwealthpower

There’s nothing traditional about a “tradwife”, writes Victoria Bateman. “Women have always been at the heart of the economy, doing everything from building pyramids to mining coal and brewing beer.”

My new book - #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power - in good company in the window of @hatchards.bsky.social bookshop, London, with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social, James Fox and Harry Sidebottom.

A pleasure to chat with Danny Bird at BBC History Magazine about my new book #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power. You can read the interview in print (October edition, out now) or listen to the podcast @historyextra.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h... #womenwealthpower

"Economica - Victoria Bateman, at Heffers Bookshop" www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/economica-... Next month with @vnbateman.bsky.social in #Cambridge.

Delighted to be ⁦at #SevenoaksBookshop today‬⁩ signing copies of my new book #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power, telling the story of how women made the world wealthy. If you’d like to read a history of the global economy that centres women, buy your copy now. #Sevenoaks #Kent

The message of #Economica: we cannot explain the rise and decline of civilisations - or insulate our own economies from the same fate - without placing women’s economic freedoms at the heart of the story. #womenwealthpower @headlinebooks.bsky.social @hachetteuk.bsky.social

Thanks to @wotsashtead.bsky.social for supplying with Economica: A global history of women, wealth and power by @vnbateman.bsky.social

The brilliant @timleunig.bsky.social at the launch of my new book #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power, showing - as always - that there is never a dull moment in economic history. Thank you Tim! #womenwealthpower

It was a privilege to celebrate the launch of my new book #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power with so many esteemed economists, historians, journalists and business leaders this week at the National Portrait Gallery in London 🎉🎉🎉🧵

Congratulations to @vnbateman.bsky.social on launch of Economica. Such a wonderful book: ‘Making the case for women’s central importance, readers will be left wondering how economic history could ever be studied without reference to one half of the world’s population’ #economica #economichistory

Lovely to see the fabulous Alice Loxton at launch yesterday for Economica by @vnbateman.bsky.social at the National Portrait Gallery. I loved Alice’s Eighteen (especially Empress Matilda as a teenager!) and can’t wait for her book on the Eleanor crosses #economica #eighteen #womenwhoruledtheworld

During launch last night of @vnbateman.bsky.social wonderful Economica it was fabulous to tour National Portrait Gallery’s powerful women who played economic role in world history. Including Ada Lovelace, Dorothea Jordan, Catherine of Braganza, Elizabeth I. @nationalportraitgallery #economica

A wonderful evening at the National Portrait Gallery celebrating the launch of Economica by @vnbateman.bsky.social which is a wonderfully innovative, highly detailed and very important study of women’s economic agency across the globe and across time. I loved it! #economica #womenwealthandpower

There’s nothing traditional about a “tradwife”, writes Victoria Bateman. “Women have always been at the heart of the economy, doing everything from building pyramids to mining coal and brewing beer.”

There’s nothing traditional about a “tradwife”, writes Victoria Bateman. “Women have always been at the heart of the economy, doing everything from building pyramids to mining coal and brewing beer.”

Want to know about history’s most fascinating businesswomen, along with the many female hunters, miners, brewers & plumbers? Get ready for a journey that takes you from the Stone Age to today. Get your copy of #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power this weekend.

Delighted to feature in #BBCHistory Magazine @historyextra.bsky.social - October issue out now. #Economica #womenwealthpower

A terrific and important book. Out now from @vnbateman.bsky.social !!! 👇👇👇