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 ;)

There's so much in here that historians can tear apart, but I'd like to point to just one bit of specious comparison: a brief reference to indexing.

Historians always bristle at deterministic economic models (regressions) for predicting historical data… so … ta dah… @mmpaker.bsky.social and @patrickwallis.bsky.social and I took the biggest data set and predicted it by machine learning instead www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His... !

A reminder of this evening’s Aaron Graham lecture from Professor Pat Hudson. Supported by the Economic History Society and UCL History. @patrickwallis.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social

It’s publication day. Available from wherever you prefer to buy your books/ebooks/audiobooks.

Exciting new book to buy

My dept has a big opening for a school manager www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

Professor Philip Schofield (Bentham Project, UCL Laws), Professor Judy Stephenson (UCL BSSC), and Dr Xine Yao (UCL English), feature in a new UCL Press Play documentary entitled 'The Greatest Good: Bentham’s Defence of Sexual Liberty'. 📺👇 youtu.be/ZndE5GhlX1I?...

REMINDER: We offer bursaries of up to £500 per head to support UK-based postgraduate and early career researchers to arrange panels on London-related topics for academic conferences. See here for further details on how to apply (please repost to help spread the word!)

If you are a senior woman in a male-dominated field and you’re about to do something public-facing, studies suggest you should silence the inner voice whispering that the audience might dismiss or discount your expertise, writes Sarah O'Connor www.ft.com/content/eda3...

Submit an article to the Society's journal, Transactions. We welcome research articles and commentaries on historical debate / practice. Our journal covers all historical subjects, chronologies & geographies bit.ly/3OujmeL Articles appear Open Access to ensure wide circulation #Skystorians 1/2

For all BCPM0001 and 0083 students. The most elegant explanation you will find of the Coasian problem of social cost in a Real Estate setting @timleunig.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/timleuni...

This is good by @timleunig.bsky.social. An odd choice IMV that commercial buildings have to have the same level of 'right to light' as residential ones...while not being built to a standard that you can convert them to residential buildings easily.

"Quite why their minds went in this direction is for psychiatrists to explain, though it is of course possible they’ve misread the coverage, and believe the government has negotiated away Britain’s fisting rights." Wahey!

Campop blog #49: The gig economy & precarious work are often seen as something new. But before the industrial revolution and factory work, most employment was precarious and far from full time: as shown by @judyzara.bsky.social @camunicampop.bsky.social www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/05...

If you are not yet hooked on Campop’s weeklies, just read @judyzara.bsky.social post on work before the Industrial Revolution at www.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2025/05.... You can always sign up to get these delivered fresh to you with your morning coffee every week!

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... At last ! Wanting to get around is not a crime !

#LSEEvents as a former apprentice of @patrickwallis.bsky.social I’m enjoying the fabulous reception for “The Market for Skill” tonight … press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... deservedly .. it’s a great read. I learned so much. Apprenticeship is a much cleverer institution than you think

@historytoday.com have published my thoughts on what the Industrial Revolution was all about ! I expect arguments ;) www.historytoday.com/archive/head... …

🚨Our new working paper (w/ @jordanclaridge.bsky.social & Spike Gibbs) on medieval wage inequality is now available as a working paper with @lseechist.bsky.social 🚨 My esteemed Colleague @jordanclaridge.bsky.social has done a nice thread on this below! 👇

Our @jordanclaridge.bsky.social has a new working paper on medieval wage inequality in England 📜 Read his summary below 🔽 #econhist #economics #lse #medievalhistory

For those of you thinking how difficult it is to do things with a pram in the hall …Virginia Woolfe’s £ 500 a year has an income value today of £196,000. I think that’s excluding the cost of the room? www.measuringworth.com/calculators/...

We earlymod econhis types have a program for this term at the @ihr.bsky.social 😀 www.history.ac.uk/seminars/eco...

Two more weeks left to apply for our @urbaneconomics.bsky.social summer school. Details below.

This week’s Weekly Constitutional post at @prospectmagazine.co.uk This was fun to put together, and I hope you enjoy it. A return to more earnest constitutional commentary next week, no doubt.

What happens when someone who rejects all rules becomes the ruler? Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger (@wiko-berlin.bsky.social) discusses the logic of autocracy in the case of Frederick William I: Wed. 30 Apr, 5pm @magdalenoxford.bsky.social. Free registration here: www.ticketsource.co.uk/magdalen-col...

This is likely to be terrific

Isn’t me… Or are some people who told me state capacity and institutions were really Very Important are now telling me that it’s business as usual, everything is fine?

NEW How Trump used emergency legislation for his tariffs policy The constitution provides that it is for Congress and not the president to set the terms of trade By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

This sounds an incredibly interesting project for someone. PS: I know that this isn't the point), but look at the map that makes up the teaser image: Fenland and historic East Anglia, i.e., Norfolk and Suffolk, don't really overlap. The silts and peats of the Broads are... different landscapes.

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

Applications now invited for the Society's 2 new funding programmes supported by the Scouloudi Foundation: > RHS Public History Grants bit.ly/4bF4zJK > RHS Panel Grants bit.ly/4ky23ZP Both programmes will assist historians working collaboratively, in and outside higher education #Skystorians

Liz Truss tried her best but, as with so many things, if you want something done properly, you need to get the Americans to do it.

Tawney Lecture at EHS Guido Alfani: Economic inequality in preindustrial societies

That tingling sense of excitement when years of research and writing arrives in boxes as a finished product. A biography to read in the age of revenge of geopolitics.

The latest from @banxtoons.bsky.social

If the US can disregard the most basic of WTO rules with impunity, why should anyone else obey those rules they find irksome? So I am puzzled when people caution against retaliation. It is required, or the whole rules based WTO edifice will eventually collapse. Retaliation is pro-globalisation.