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From Records to Riches – An Automated Pipeline for Transcribing the Tables des Successions et Absences, 1790-1870
11 Sep, 2025
In this blog post, Aurelius Noble and Noah Sutter of the London School of Economics introduce their research, which...
The occupational structure of twentieth-century China: Evidence from lineage genealogies
9 Sep, 2025
In this post Ying Dai of University of Oxford discusses her ongoing research, supported by an EHS Carnevali Small...
Re-Writing the History of Commercial Capital
5 Sep, 2025
This post presents the forthcoming ‘Political Economy of Capital in the Pre-Modern World’ workshop, which is funded by the...
A Chronic Affliction: Capital Mobilisation in the Wartime Japanese Empire
2 Sep, 2025
In this post Tsz Ho Wong of University of Edinburgh discusses their ongoing research, supported by the EHS Research Fund...
Letters to Marie Stopes: Seeking Birth Control Advice in Scotland, 1918-1930
29 Aug, 2025
In this post Barbara Gabeler of University of Edinburgh (with cross-institutional supervision at the University of Glasgow) discusses their ongoing...
Women in finance in modern Britain
20 Aug, 2025
In this post James Taylor of Lancaster University discusses their new book, supported by an EHS Carnevali Small Research...
Sulphur governance and state-community relations in the Duchy of Florence, 1532-1569
13 Aug, 2025
In this post Fabrizio Ansani of King’s College London discusses their ongoing research, supported by an EHS Carnevali Small Research...
The Centre for South-East European Economic History – Summer School in Quantitative Economic History
6 Aug, 2025
This post describes the inaugural summer school held by the Centre between 9 and 11 July 2025 at the...
