The 2026 Conference celebrated the Society’s 100th anniversary. New Researchers presented 20 posters. Real Protection: Tariffs, Prices, and Policy Inertia in Peru, 1900–1940: Evidence on the Determinants of Trade Policy in a Price-Driven Tariff System By Raisa Maria Rubio Cordova (Gothenburg)

www.ft.com/content/e318... FMCG has no added value left. A long process since the mid 1990’s investment in brands and “innovation” has ended with the digital economy’s low barriers to entry wiping out margin.

link.springer.com/book/10.1007... delighted to launch this historical casebook of wage formation with @giulio-ongaro.bsky.social and Luca Mocarelli. An amazing list of authors. A lovely project. Thank you @springernature.com

This week we launched the 2026 call the Society's annual Teaching Fellowships. Funds support innovative practice in history teaching in higher education bit.ly/4wbwoDb. Open to UK and international Fellows and Members of the Society. Closing date Friday 10 July 2026 #Skystorians 1/2

Was a member of one of these workshops earlier in the year and HIGHLY recommend it. At a time when so many institutions have stepped away from supporting Humanities research, here's an ace opportunity to have your History monograph enhanced or to contribute to that enhancement.

I’ve been procrastinating on scheduling an interview (or rather there aren’t enough hours in the day and days in the week) and now they went and got the Pulitzer and everyone’s gonna be in their inbox. Lesson, children: when someone says yes to your podcast, schedule it for today!

If you're in Belfast at 5pm today, pop over to the Lanyon Building at QUB for Mark Drumbl's British Academy lecture on Child Soldiers: Coming of Age in Atrocity. Free and open to the public. #Skystorians

Here you have in a few short years the complete destruction of an entire industry, tens of thousands of people having to reinvent their way of life, and an unprecedented transfer of wealth to powerful plutocrats. And women got screwed. www.broadhistory.com/the-gender-p...

Holy cow, this goes much further than I thought one would need to to explain monopsony power in the labour market but .. it’s not entirely inaccurate theoretically even though it really is historically 🤭 www.npr.org/sections/pla...

We need historians because evidence doesn’t explain itself. Context does not simply exist. It is built through research, interpretation, and critical analysis. What stories have you uncovered in the historical record? #TalkAboutHumanities 🗃️

The real question: which book about dominant currencies will be the dominant currency book?

I believe in a multipolar system of books about currencies and suggest a literary festival be convened in Bretton Woods to design it.

Full-funded (home or international) collaborative PhD studentship (Kew and Royal Holloway, University of London) available. Deadline 8 May. Topic: ‘Just acquisitions? Law and ethics over time in Kew’s overseas plant collecting history’ #Skystorians

This is absolutely pathetic. A cultural sector colluding in state censorship because it can’t afford to do its printing in a democratic country.

Delighted to have presented my paper on Hampshire's peasant women and land, c.1300-c.1400, at the New Researcher sessions for #ehs100! I've really enjoyed all the other papers I've heard this weekend, everyone's doing such fascinating research.

Huge thanks to @echistsoc.bsky.social and especially @ericbschneider.bsky.social @judyzara.bsky.social @patrickwallis.bsky.social @alkaraman.bsky.social and Maureen Galbraith for a weekend of stimulating research, discussion, debate & conversations #EHS100

Morgan Kelly’s Tawney just stuck a bomb under 20 famous historical economics papers, #EHS100 but persistence persists. What to do? ask historians…. Simples TELL HISTORY BETTER. Make it gripping, make it compelling. @echistsoc.bsky.social

Congratulations to Sara Benetti from @ubcvse.bsky.social, winner of the @echistsoc.bsky.social New Researcher Prize for her paper on the social consequences of technological change! economics.ubc.ca/profile/sara...

@ehswomcom.bsky.social @echistsoc.bsky.social Amy Erickson recalls before email, before mobiles, (before data protection!) compiling the Directory of Women in Economic & Social History

@ehswomcom.bsky.social our session at the @echistsoc.bsky.social #EHS100 is a study of how unity around shared interests mitigates compound discrimination. Hats off to @alkaraman.bsky.social for a great panel

Learned societies and academies, and their journals, need to take a stand. We need to make it clear that we expect our authors to be able to read (the references they cite) and write (the articles they claim to have authored).

#EHS100 London, Oxford, Cambridge … and Utrecht … but it doesn’t feel like that this weekend. Almost 400 economic historians from all over ! Doing EH 😍

What began as a lecture on the field's evolution is turning into a paper. An animation mapping the affiliations of over 3,000 authors published in the EHR over the last century (Latin America is the most underrepresented region). @echistsocreview.bsky.social @echistsoc.bsky.social

The hard part of this weekend is the retirement of Maureen Galbraith who has served the Society for 28 years. Read an interview with her here files.ehs.org.uk/wp-content/u...

Good luck to all our New Researchers ! #EHS100

Excellent work by Marcus, super interesting for historians working on wealth, consumption, and living standards!

Very much looking forward to the #EHS100 at the LSE this weekend! Now let’s hope I finish my presentation in time.

This weekend the Economic History Society @echistsoc.bsky.social begins its centenary celebrations at @lseechist.bsky.social. #EHS100 Our conferences ARE what we do: New research; new researchers; debate; recognition of outstanding work; support.

Really well-argued piece - great to see MPs actually using longform to make serious arguments that aren't just voter-babble. I like trams, and I think we should build more of them, because I am an anti-car urbanist who thinks trams make for more liveable cities because they're car killers. But 🧵

longruninstitute.com is delighted to sponsor doctoral students to attend @echistsoc.bsky.social Centenary conference. Here’s the programme ! @profjohnturner.bsky.social ehs.org.uk/conference/2...

Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral PhD Studentship at UCL and the V&A: 'Invisible Hands: Migrant Labour and British Craft in the 18th Century' Ignore the 'top ten' hype; focus on the ace resources, environment and support. Deadline 15 April. #Skystorians

@jemima.bsky.social giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... An intergenerational vibe like 1920s well to do well educated flappers fearing they would never have the assets and the grandeur of their fin de sielce grandmothers making a whole new world ! Fab !

@vnbateman.bsky.social I reviewed Economica for the @echistsocreview.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... It’s great! Thoroughly enjoyed it, and here I say why we need to take this long run view of women in economic activity very seriously

Episode 3 of Everything Economic History is now live! Join @judyzara.bsky.social for a great chat about wages and working conditions in eighteenth century Britain and the lessons they have for today open.spotify.com/episode/4X6T... podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e... #economics #econhistory #nsrp

Now on BlueSky, The International Earl Engine Conference (IEEC) can update on progress for our March 2026 Conference in Bristol (IEEC4). The proposed papers have been updated, but the call continues until the end of Oct 2025! #HistSci #Newcomen #IEEC4 www.earlyengines.org/ieec4-fourth...

DRAFT: A Small, Intensive, Data-Sciencey Seminar in Long-Run Economic History I have decided on my teaching next semester: two things that are half-courses (half of grad student intro to economic history, and the economic-history outside-speakers seminar)… braddelong.substack.com/p/draft-a-sm...

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

The @echistsoc.bsky.social ‘s PhD residential training course literally changes careers for the better… apply here ehs.org.uk/society/stud...

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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.

Employing village-level data from the Ottoman tax registers of 1468/1604, this article finds that settlements with lower income per household were more likely to convert. It hypothesizes the poll tax stimulated the poorer Bosnians to adopt Islam upon the Ottoman conquest of their region.

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/...

The District Line IS www.savewimbledonpark.org this morning. Godspeed.

Thousands of other similarly ill-thought out decisions, concerning everything from vaccinations to infection control, fly under the radar. We are well past peak health, and on our way to becoming a sicker society.

Our working paper is out!

Now on Early View: 'Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics'. By Theocharis N. Grigoriadis & Alise Vitola. ‪@theocharisgr.bsky.social‬ ‪@osteuropainstitut.bsky.social‬ @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social‬ onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Now on here 🥳! The 99 1/2 year old best economic history Society in the world ;)