The editorial board of the @rhi-ihr.bsky.social wishes you happy holidays and a very happy new year! We are grateful to our editors, authors, and referees, for a very good year 2025. We look forward to 2026 for more workshops, and new issues engaging with industrial and economic history!

We had the @echistsoc.bsky.social Women’s Committee’s Annual Workshop yesterday @ucl.ac.uk Thanks to all the presenters and participants for their collegiality and shared interest in making women visible in history! Special thanks to @camilladekoning.bsky.social for the great organisation!

What comprised useful market knowledge enabling British merchants to sell cotton textiles in overseas markets? Alexander Appleton examines the coordination of market intelligence for successful cotton trading 👇

What did innovation in the production of salt look like in the British Caribbean during the late 18th and early 19th centuries? Kimberley Thomas unpacks what the shift from slavery to freedom in salt production entailed 👇

How might we assess the little divergence between India and Japan through the lens of access to raw cotton? Aditi Dixit comparatively examines the role of the state and industrial growth 👇

How does a physical space become a site for global economic history? @alibennett.bsky.social unpacks the significance of African ivory in the Port of London 👇

Few days left to register for the EHS Women’s Committee’s annual workshop. Details 👇 or follow the link ehs.org.uk/event/womens...

🍾 We are proud to announce “Introduction: New Perspectives in Global Economic History” by @alkaraman.bsky.social (@ucl.ac.uk ), author of the piece and editor of the special issue on global economic history in @rhi-ihr.bsky.social . Read it open access 👉 doi.org/10.1344/rhi-...

The first volume of the Special Issue on Global Economic History @rhi-ihr.bsky.social is now out! It features 4 new articles on 4 commodities in global economic history - salt, ivory, raw cotton, and finished cotton goods - all open access. It was a great experience editing this volume!

Last evening was truly special, meeting with dear friends and colleagues to celebrate the launch of @edmond-smith.bsky.social new book, ‘Ruthless: A New History of Britain’s Rise to Wealth and Power’

Still buzzing after the talk by @sushmajansari.bsky.social about her experience of community curation and the making of the exhibition ‘Ancient India, Living Traditions’ @britishmuseum.bsky.social @uclhistory.bsky.social

A great programme on the theme of ‘Women and Enterprise’ for the annual workshop of the EHS Women’s Committee @echistsoc.bsky.social @ehswomcom.bsky.social The workshop will be held in-person @uclhistory.bsky.social see registration details 👇

We’ve just finished a most useful @ehswomcom.bsky.social training session with @eicathomefinn.bsky.social, Ramon Ramon-Munoz @rhi-ihr.bsky.social and Michael Watson @universitypress.cambridge.org on early career years in academia & grants/postdocs processes & publishing academic articles/books.

Reminder: online training event for academic publishing and applying for grants, on 10th Oct, organised by the @ehswomcom.bsky.social The event will be particularly useful for ECRs, registration info👇

Many thanks to Darshan Shah and the team from Weavers’ Studio, Kolkata. ‘Textiles from Bengal’ would not be possible without them.

The highlight of the day - textile objects, demonstrating extraordinary skill and expertise in textile making and adornment in Bengal.

Mary Schoeser, Meha Priyadarshini and I also presented at the ‘Textiles from Bengal’ event. Thanks to the audience for the fantastic engagement!

Rosemary Crill, John Styles and Karolina Hutkova presenting at ‘Textiles from Bengal: A Shared Legacy’

It’s about to begin! Setting up for ‘Textiles from Bengal’

Children and the Covid-19 pandemic. UK report is out, and includes a child-friendly version.

Want to know more about publishing your work and applying for research grants? The @ehswomcom.bsky.social is organising an online training session on 10th Oct. Save the date! ⬇️

It's that time of year again, annual elections for election to Council of the National Trust. Lots of candidates to choose from. Read carefully and vote wisely if you don't want the direction of travel to be backward.

How did women participate in business and enterprise through history? CfP currently live from the @ehswomcom.bsky.social

The call for next year's @businesshistoryc.bsky.social annual meeting is up (the deadline is Oct 17th). The theme is Co-creation. Is there anyone who might be interesting in developing a panel on the Co-creation of business histories with collaborators from outside both academia & the corporation.

Fantastic day in Exeter immersed in the history of the city through the foundational materiality of the Roman walls! Thanks to Mark Stoyle for leading the brilliant tour for the @ehswomcom.bsky.social @echistsoc.bsky.social

From the tussle between the cathedral and the city, to cloth-making and economic prosperity, all built on Roman foundations. Exeter Roman walls tour of the @ehswomcom.bsky.social

Fancy a garden wall with Roman foundations?!

Wall as a patchwork of stone over time!

Beginning the EHS Women’s Committee’s Exeter Roman Walls walk with Mark Stoyle with the gunpowder tower!

Cannot recommend this highly enough for PhD students, having benefitted from the residential training course myself several years ago!

Assessing textile samples at the Whitworth and John Rylands in Manchester with @edmond-smith.bsky.social for an upcoming exhibition. Time flies you’re having fun!

As always, a fabulous time to be completing a PhD on a seventeenth-century couple, East India goods, and touching on the India women of Restoration London👇

What is the significance of Indian textiles in global economic history? Co-organising a one-day workshop with Tirthankar Roy on the topic, to mark the launch of the new book ‘Textiles from Bengal’. Limited places available, book via link👇 www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His...

Fantastic few days in beautiful Lund @WEHC2025 partaking in global new research in economic history, exchanging ideas and sharing insights. So special to see colleagues and friends from all around the world, safe travels back home all!

Very excited to join the editorial team @rhi-ihr.bsky.social thanks to the existing team for a wonderfully warm welcome at #WEHC2025 in Lund!

#WEHC2025 We're underway for "The Seams of Globalisation"! Delighted to be running this session with @alkaraman.bsky.social. Currently hearing @vendyhoppe.bsky.social giving a wonderful paper on Venetian silk through studying probate inventories

Call for papers that explore new methodologies, archival discoveries, or conceptual frameworks, especially those that challenge traditional definitions of entrepreneurship or highlight women’s creativity in navigating constraints. @ehswomcom.bsky.social @echistsoc.bsky.social details ⬇️

Exeter city walls walking tour/networking session organised by the Women’s Committee of the Economic History Society @echistsoc.bsky.social ⬇️

Hello from the EHS Women’s Committee! We have an exciting line up of events for the coming months! Check them out at ehs.org.uk/society/wome...

We’ve launched a new collection of openly accessible videos, Interviews with Historians, in which prominent 20th century historians reflect on their lives and professional practices. Access the collection here: www.history.ac.uk/library-digi...

Applications now open (until 27 June 2025) for the Institute of Historical Research's non-stipendiary IHR Fellowships. Ideal for active, non-affiliated historians who would benefit from a period embedded in @ihr.bsky.social 's community of public, local & academic historians, archivists, curators.

I had the best time this week giving a talk at the University of Barcelona on import substitution in the British and French cotton industries and talking to PhD students about their projects and methodologies.

Fab few days in Paris for the ‘Fils, nœuds, cordes, câbles’ workshop with Centre Alexandre Koyré @CAK.ehess.fr I shared work on cotton, tech change & economic modernity, & absorbed exciting new research on objects, materials & tech! Thank you Liliane Hilaire Perez for the invitation!

Welcome to the Economic History Society's Bluesky account. Stay tuned for updates from the Economic History Review and the society's Long Run blog, as well as for information about our annual conference, fellowships and grants!

It was a great pleasure to see Pat Hudson deliver the Aaron Graham Lecture @uclhistory.bsky.social, supported by the @echistsoc.bsky.social, on how British investments in the Caribbean helped boost financial capacity in the British economy during the 18th century.

The fantastic UCL India summer school would not have been possible without the fantastic students who absorbed new ideas with enthusiasm and wide open minds! They were a real pleasure to teach, hope to see some at @ucl.ac.uk in the years to come!

Delighted beyond measure to be a part of the UCL India Summer School @ucl.bsky.social with brilliant colleagues, delivering the pathway ‘Globalisation and Technology’ through an Indian lens for @UCLHistory.bsky.social Thrilled that so many got excited by this new perspective on India and the world!

Absolute pleasure to be back in Delhi, for the UCL India Summer School, for @uclhistory.bsky.social. I’m delivering a pathway entitled ‘Globalisation and Technology: India and the World, 1700-present.’ Bright students, deep discussions and a chance to share new research on India, in India!

One of the joys of working @uclhistory.bsky.social is that you have access to the extraordinary @uclpetriemuseum.bsky.social with one of the largest collections of Egyptian and Sudanese historic artefacts. I spotted some textiles which will, no doubt, form part of future investigations!

How do historians think through the use of objects for historical research? Great time talking with @uclhistory.bsky.social offer holders today about objects in history.