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Agrarian roots of capitalism in England, c. 1550-1850

10 Jul, 2025
In this blog, Joshua Rhodes of Durham University describes his research on the agrarian roots of capitalism in the...

Early Modern Capitalism: Trade, Risk and Profit

7 Jul, 2025
In this blog post, Professor Maxine Berg of the University of Warwick sets out the themes of a one-day...

Investigating U.S. Imperialism in Haiti through its Railways, 1909-1934

2 Jul, 2025
In this post, Georgia Davison of the University of Cambridge writes about how the Economic History Society’s Research Fund...

Imperial China’s eighteenth-century quota: how an affirmative-action experiment reshaped the exam empire

2 Jun, 2025
In this blog post, Melanie Meng Xue of the London School of Economics & Boxiao Zhang of the Renmin...

British Records Association Harley Prize 2025

2 Jun, 2025
The British Records Association is pleased to announce that entry to the 2025 Janette Harley Prize is now open....

Top of the CamPops: blog marking 60 years of the Cambridge Group for the History of Population & Social Structure

14 Apr, 2025
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population & Social Structure turned 60 years old on 11 July 2024,...
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