What has our department been up to in 2025 🗺️📈? Check it out here: blogs.lse.ac.uk/economichist... #lse #echist

We are hiring postdoc researchers to join our #WrittenWorlds project at Birkbeck, with Sue Wiseman, @mdpowelldavies.bsky.social, @richardjansell.bsky.social and I. 0.5FTE, 13 months, focus on women's or provincial non-elite writing #EarlyModern 🗃️ cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/post...

New article in French History! ‘By the king’s suspension, the constitution is violated’: provincial opposition to the revolution of 10 August 1792' by William S. Cormack 🇫🇷🧐💾👨‍🎤🤴 Open Access here: doi.org/10.1093/fh/c... @frenchhistory.bsky.social

Paper by E Acosta, @demography.bsky.social, @thegargiulian.bsky.social & C Torres first from PDR special issue I guest edited w/ L Andriano & M Ebbinghaus, Social and Demographic Consequences of Political Conflict and Violence, to be available on early view onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Growing Up in the Early Modern World, a workshop Nov 27 in Sydney exploring childhood in institutional settings, & care, discipline & education across the life course. Please submit a 200 word abstract & 3-sentence bio note by 15 July to [email protected]. Online/hybrid participation possible.

I was interviewed by the French History Network blog about my new @manchesterup.bsky.social book, 'Make cheese not war'. It was an ace opportunity to reflect on the lifecycle of a book project, personal encounters, research-led teaching (& vice versa) & more frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6838/ 🗃️

When unpaid cooking, cleaning and child care get a dollar value, US income inequality shrinks – but the gap has grown since 1965. Leila Gautham & Nancy Folbre in the JPubE report that declining household production implies inequality in living standards has expanded more than standard data suggest!

The Criminal Justice team at Arnold Ventures is looking for a pending/recent PhD with strong causal inference skills, for a remote, part-time consulting position. This is a great opportunity for someone considering a transition from academia to the policy space. Deadline: March 15 Please share!

Excited to announce new OA article with Jane Humphries, 'The economic history of caring labour'. Using historical data on infant feeding, we show how breastfeeding acted as a buffer against weak public health systems and how scientific and technological change reshaped this care work over time.

A great #bookhistory job.

Trying to work out what precisely is meant by 'schrifterij' when someone in the London Dutch Church describes documents as ‘rustende onder de schrifterij aen der consistorie’. It's not in the Historische Woordenboeken. Grateful for thoughts from early modern Dutch experts (no guesses please!).

Any WWII historians of UK internment camps out there? I have 4 letters written to my mother by a Mrs Emmerich, a German (probably) cook who worked for her family before the war. They are so gorgeous, & so heartbreaking, & might be of interest to historians? @waitmanwbeorn.com ?

I'm now recruiting for a crucial post in my team - Curator: Parliamentary Art Collection. A rare chance to work with a wonderful collection in a unique setting. Please do share, and feel free to get in touch with any questions

Interesting working paper on wealth mobility in Germany by Markus Grabka, @pmlersch.bsky.social, @smaexie.bsky.social, and @drschnitzlein.bsky.social population-economics.committee.socialpolitik.de/sites/defaul...

Finally in print in the JEH: Nikolaus Wolf and I study the Congress of Vienna as a natural experiment that changed European borders and may have left Prussia with the geography that would unify the German Empire. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Infant mortality increased following the Nazi expulsion of Jewish doctors, according to Helge Liebert and Beatrice Mäder in a new REStat paper!

Excellent and surely unarguable letter in @thetimes.com on the case for making student loan debt tax deductible. One only has to think about this for one minute to wonder why on earth this doesn’t happen already…

Looking for public domain & open license images? “Openverse is a tool that allows openly licensed and public domain works to be discovered and used by everyone... [searching] 800 million images and audio tracks from open APIs and the Common Crawl dataset.“ Also, attribute authorship with one click 📸

the future of population health surveillance

In our new paper (BMJ Global Health), we systematically collected 923 historical growth studies covering 122 countries from 1814–2016. By harmonising height-by-age data, we reconstruct stunting patterns over two centuries. Link: doi.org/10.1136/bmjg... 5)

What is child stunting — and how has it changed over the last 200 years? Stunting means being too short for one’s age due to chronic undernutrition and disease in early life. It’s one of the clearest markers of cumulative deprivation in childhood. 1)

Steven Ruggles has a new analysis on cohort sizes and labor market competition, showing that when you account for immigration, labor market entrants, and retirements, the next few decades should be good for young workers. Paper not out yet, but here's a talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Jw1...

Come join @nathannunn.bsky.social James Fenske, Stephan Heblich and myself in the far north of 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦 Yellowknife, Northwest Territories, boasts up to 240 nights of active aurora borealis per year ❤️

In a new ANU working paper Alison Booth contextualizes the iconic Australian painting Shearing the Rams by Tom Roberts in the growth of the Australian wool industry, the development of trade union organization and the Australian colonies' path to federation. ideas.repec.org/p/auu/hpaper...

Only one week left to propose a paper for the joint economic history-Indigenous economics meeting August 21-23 in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. Send 1-2 page extended abstract to David Rosé ([email protected]) & Rob Gillezeau ([email protected]) by February 27! economichistory.ca

Eradicating child stunting was a central feature of the modern health transition. A new paper reviews 923 child growth studies in 122 countries 1814-2016 to show massive decline in child stunting in the 20th century even in hi income countries & surprising heterogeneity in the regional trajectories.

CFP SSHA March 1 is the deadline to submit an abstract for papers & paper sessions at the 51st annual Social Science History Assoc meeting in Atlanta Nov 19-22. The meeting brings together scholars in history & the social sciences in 20 thematic networks, each of which organizes its own sessions.

The University of Prince Edward Island is hiring a historian in Atlantic Canadian history! Details below… www.upei.ca/hr/competiti...

Excited to launch Principia, a nonprofit research organisation at the intersection of deep learning theory and AI safety. Our goal is to develop theory for modern machine learning systems that can help us understand complex network behaviors, including those critical for AI safety and alignment. 1

I am delighted that this great conversation with Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan has posted. Their extraordinary work on intergenerational mobility and immigrants speaks to essential dimensions of the extent of equality of opportunity and of the process of assimilation.

Congrats to all the authors and publishers on the longlist! 🎺🎺🎺

More than 100K political science articles since 2010 in 150 journals are overwhelmingly likely to confirm hypotheses ie reject the null. New working paper by Briggs, Mellon & Arel-Bundock. Careful empirical demonstration of publication bias. Interesting use of LLM for coding. doi.org/10.31235/osf...

Hamish Maxwell-Stewart discusses which 19thC Australian prisoners had tattoos & what kind of tattoos, at the APEBH meeting in Adelaide. Joint work with Canadian undergraduates Piper Boyd Bell & Salomé Perdomo Gonzalez. Americans, soldiers & sailors more likely, the Irish & locally-born less likely.

I am excited to be hiring two post-doctoral positions at UCLA--please share with your networks. www.aeaweb.org/joe/listing.....

"documents found at the local record office showed sign language was used in a marriage ceremony at St Martin's Church on 6 February 1576. According to the transcript of the wedding certificate, Thomas Tilsye was deaf and married his wife Ursula Russel with signing assistance"

The UBC Press backlist has impressive collections of First Nations and military history, inter alia

Everyone working in development economics should read this chapter. They provide evidence that what works in development is less about finding universally good levers and more about designing interventions compatible with locally embedded social structures. www.nber.org/papers/w3481...

Proposals due Friday!

New publication! Our paper with Svante Prado and Yoshihiri Sato titled "Women and children in factories: Did mechanization increase the demand for low-cost labor in Sweden?" is published in a special issue on gender in economic history. recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/IH...

I am delighted that my most recent book 'Deserted Wives and Economic Divorce in 19th-Century England and Wales' (Hart, 2024) has been nominated for the Hart-SLSA Book Prize AND the Socio-Legal Theory and History Prize 2026... (more below!) slsa.ac.uk/so/45PmDxXBD...

What can you do with a history degree?

Big congratulations to Rohan Alexander & Tim Hatton for their article ‘The making of a nation: Who voted for Australian federation?' which has won the 2025 Sir Timothy Coghlan award for best paper in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review!

Pauline Grosjean (UNSW) draws from her new CUP monograph 'Patriarcapitalism - Institutions, culture, and the roots of gender inequality' to argue for the importance and mutability of gender norms in the 2026 Noel Butlin lecture at the 2026 APEBH meeting in Adelaide sites.google.com/hawaii.edu/2...

Youssef Ghallada (LSE) argues that expansion of the global telegraph network increased borrowing on the London market for sterling bills of exchange and led to some reorganization of financial sectors overseas. Presentation at the 2026 APEBH meeting in Adelaide sites.google.com/hawaii.edu/2...

Bruce Chapman, emeritus professor of economics at ANU, opens the 2026 Asia-Pacific Economic & Business History conference in Adelaide with a masterful review of the history of higher education financing in Australia.

Hi #causalsky - Has anyone done a dynamic DiD set up when we have accumulating treatments or multiple events with cumulative effects? Some units are true controls, some have one event, some have multiple at different points in time. @jmwooldridge.bsky.social @pedrosantanna.bsky.social please Repost!

We rarely think of economics as scandalous, but maybe we should. Sam Bowles, in conversation with @durlauf.bsky.social & Ethan Bueno de Mesquita, argues that a core assumption in the field impedes moral reasoning about wealth redistribution. Watch "Why Economic Inequalities Endure"→ bit.ly/3Yj4F3B

A new WP that uses data from U.S. academic jobs shows that a person's socioeconomic background is an important determinant not just of their career starting point, but of their career progression. Read the WP on the academia class gap by @annastansbury.bsky.social & Kyra Rodriguez. bit.ly/4ab6xRs

The Canadian Network for Econ History is organizing sessions for the 2026 CEA meeting in Vancouver May 28-30 (also May 22 virtual). 250 word abstracts on any econ history topic may be submitted through the CEA online portal by Feb 13. More info at www.economichistory.ca or www.economics.ca/cea2026

We deserve to live until we are old. substack.com/home/post/p-... #publichealth #demography #epidemiology #healthpolicy