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.

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

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

Delighted to be speaking at St Albans Museum on 11th February, placing women at the heart of economic history from the Stone Age to the present day. Tickets available in-person and online. Book here: www.stalbansmuseums.org.uk/whats-on/eco... #Economica #womenwealthpower

A recently discovered statue from 10,000 BCE - depicting a woman carrying a goose - is ‘the earliest figurine to depict a human–animal interaction’ www.discovermagazine.com/a-12-000-yea...

"I'm not showing off my body. I *am* my body." — Victoria Bateman

This, from ECONOMICA by Victoria Bateman, sums up so much of what I read about evolving interpretations of the past: 'Women can frequently be found in the numerous archaeological relics that survive from the past; the question is whether or not we choose to take them seriously.'

Always love Elizabeth J. Moore's reviews for @wirobooks.bsky.social, this time of @vnbateman.bsky.social's latest, ECONOMICA: "Women have been integral drivers of economic prosperity since the dawn of humanity, and the lack of recognition of this fact is a gaping blind spot in history.

Did you know that Spain was once a part of the Islamic Empire and that it was #OnThisDay #2January1492 that the Islamic Sultan of Spain packed his bags and handed the keys of the Alhambra Palace to Ferdinand and Isabella, the King and Queen of a new #Spain. Here’s what happened next 👇 #Economica

So patriarchy *isn’t* good for anybody’s bottom line? www.washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com/bookreview/e... @vnbateman.bsky.social #booksky

#OnThisDay #NewYearsEve 1600 - the #BritishEastIndiaCompany was formed by royal charter, signed by #QueenElizabethI. #Economica #womenwealthpower

Don’t fall for the myth that women only entered accountancy in the 20th century, says Dr Victoria Bateman. Read more at: issuu.com/pqpublishing...

We must have been 'nice' this year. Three books on our #Christmas list & Santa has delivered, all by authors we've loved before - @vnbateman.bsky.social, @rutgerbregman.com & @rickardsisters.com - should keep us going for a while! Merry Christmas everyone! #EconSky podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s...

My Year in Books 2025, with thanks to Dr. Victoria Bateman, @vnbateman.bsky.social, who gave me a copy of her book Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth and Power, which inspired me to write about my Grandma. medium.com/@josieglz/my...

What did the child workers of the British #IndustrialRevolution do for #Christmas at #QuarryBankMill in #Manchester?

Christmas is associated with women’s unpaid labour, so I’m thrilled to be in the #YorkshirePost Christmas special, spotlighting the women who monetised #Christmas, from the inventor of a popular family board game to the first commercial audiobook (A Child’s Christmas in Wales) #Economica

From Santa and Scrooge to the Three Wise Men and - of course - Baby Jesus, #Christmas is associated with famous men. So, meet the women from history who made Christmas what it is today - as I discuss in today’s @yorkshirepost.co.uk 🔻 #Economica #womenwealthpower

Read my secret history of women in #accountancy in the latest edition of @pqmagazine.bsky.social 👇

Look forward to being back in Tameside in May to speak at Tameside Local Studies & Archives #Economica 📗 www.tamesidecorrespondent.co.uk/2025/12/13/l... #Economica

Can’t stop won’t stop early Christmas haul edition

Thank you to everyone who has supported #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power 📗 this year. I am enormously grateful. #womenwealthpower‬⁩ ⁦‪‬⁩ @headlinebooks.bsky.social @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social @hachetteuk.bsky.social

Happy Birthday #JaneAusten - 250 today. Here’s how much money she made from her books 📗 👇 #Economica #womenwealthpower

On @popkis.bsky.social's 'Lifestyles' from 14.00CET, Dr @vnbateman.bsky.social on 'Economica: A Financial Times Best Book of 2025', and Manuela M. Kogon MD with 'When Cancer Visits: How to Free Your Mind from the Grip of Distress and Heal Your Jolted Nervous System'

#Economica 📗 spotted @waterstones.bsky.social Piccadilly today. Want a new economic history of the world - one told from the point of view of women, as well as men? If so, grab your copy now. #FTBestBooks2025

Thank you for including "A Global History of Women, Wealth, Power and My Grandma," in The Backlash this week, Alona! FYI @vnbateman.bsky.social medium.com/@josieglz/a-...

“a compelling read…filled with interesting and extraordinary stories… it encompasses the entire history of (wo)mankind” - thank you Rituparna Roy for your fantastic review of #Economica 📗: www.telegraphindia.com/books/force-...

“Victoria Bateman’s #Economica reads not so much like a history as a powerful narrative of forensic archaeology — one that excavates the contributions of women, and returns them to the pages of economic history”. Huge thanks @umamahadevan.bsky.social @thehindu.com: www.thehindu.com/books/the-in...

Three months ago today, I launched #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power at the National Portrait Gallery. A huge thank you to everyone who has read, supported, reviewed & recommended the book. I am truly grateful. @headlinebooks.bsky.social @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social #FTBestBooks

Enjoyed speaking with #SaddleworthIndependent about all things #Saddleworth, from brass bands and Morris dancing to the history of the local cotton industry and the suffragettes, plus the vital importance of local libraries and local museums: saddind.co.uk/how-saddlewo... #Oldham #Economica

I loved "Economica" by Dr. Victoria Bateman. Here's my review: A Global History of Women, Wealth, Power and My Grandma @vnbateman.bsky.social medium.com/@josieglz/a-...

My new book #Economica @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social is filled with the female movers and shakers of economic history. I’ve been asked: which three would you invite to a dinner party? You can find my answer below (filmed from the perfect setting of a Scottish castle). Do add your suggestions below.

A fun extract from my interview with Tom Hodgkinson, editor of the Idler magazine, in which we discuss the demonisation of women and money in ancient Athens, equal pay in ancient Persia and women’s leading role in the Peasants’ Revolt: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU6z...

Look forward to joining the University of Western Australia’s Public Policy Institute online tomorrow to talk about Women and the Rise and Decline of Nations. #Economica #womenwealthpower

I loved hearing my Grandmother's stories of work, life, love and travel. So when I met economic historian Victoria Bateman, @vnbateman.bsky.social, the author of “Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth and Power,” naturally I had to tell her all about my Grandma. medium.com/@josieglz/a-...

My review of “Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth and Power,” by Dr. Victoria Bateman @vnbateman.bsky.social In this essay, I also describe my grandmother's amazing working life as boot-polish peddler, seamstress, Prudential insurance agent, and much else. medium.com/@josieglz/a-...

What do afternoon tea and computers have in common? Answer in the video below. Find out more in #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power (published by @headlinebooks.bsky.social @basicbooksgroup.bsky.social) #womenwealthpower

"By 2025, Brexit had reduced UK GDP by 6% to 8%, with the impact accumulating gradually over time. We estimate that investment was reduced by between 12% and 18%, employment by 3% to 4% and productivity by 3% to 4%" Read the Stanford report: siepr.stanford.edu/publications...

My latest post, featuring Jane Austen, Virginia Woolf and Amy Levy, with critics' Books of the Year (including Economica by @vnbateman.bsky.social), new words in dictionaries and old letters in secondhand books (see @sarahjlonsdale.bsky.social) akennedysmith.substack.com/p/love-lette...