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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...
Decolonising development with Ifá tradition
4 Aug, 2025
In this post Luqma Temitayo Onikosi of the University of Brighton discusses their ongoing research, supported by the EHS...
Latin America’s Southern Cone during the Bretton Woods Era (1945-1971)
29 Jul, 2025
In this post Uziel Gonzalez-Aliaga of the University of Oxford discusses their ongoing research, supported by the EHS Research...
Commodities and the role of British capital in shaping the financial markets of Sicily 1816-1861.
25 Jul, 2025
In this post, Alex Cooper of the University of Leicester discusses his ongoing doctoral research, supported by the EHS...
Failure by design? Contesting the use of failure in historical research
24 Jul, 2025
In this blog post, Paula González Fons of the European University Institute outlines her paper about the use of...
Delivering Better Maternal Healthcare? An Examination of Black Hospital Obstetrics Care across the Mid-Twentieth Century
17 Jul, 2025
In this blog post, Matthew Purcell of the London School of Economics describes how a research grant for graduate...
