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Petitions, plantations, and the ‘colonial crown’: researching Barbados’ royal past

17 Mar, 2026
In this blog post Camilla de Koning (University of Manchester and Historic Royal Palaces) presents their research, which was...

Female Poor Law Guardians 1862-1929: A National Study

13 Mar, 2026
In this blog Steven King (Nottingham Trent University), Jan Overfield Shaw (formerly National Trust) and Elizabeth Hurren (University of...

Shortlist for the Thirsk-Feinstein PhD Dissertation Prize

13 Mar, 2026
The Economic History Society has introduced an annual prize of £1,000 for the best doctoral dissertation in Economic and/or...

Shortlist for the First Monograph Prize in Economic and/or Social History 2024-2025

12 Mar, 2026
The Economic History Society awards a prize of £1,000, on a biennial basis, for the best first monograph in...

The Political Economy and Effectiveness of Early Twentieth Century British Alcohol Policy

10 Mar, 2026
Padraig McKee (Queen’s University Belfast) is a recipient of a grant from the Economic History Society’s Research Fund for...

The occupational structure of Britain c.1379-1911

5 Mar, 2026
In this blog post Leigh Shaw Taylor (University of Cambridge) presents some of the findings of the Occupational Structure...

Subsidising Whiteness: British Shipping and Racialised Politics after the Great Depression

2 Mar, 2026
In this blog post Shagnick Bhattacharya (Independent Scholar) presents their research, which was supported by the 2026 Joint BME...

Power and Plenty? A New, Quantitative Lens on the British Empire

27 Feb, 2026
In this blog post Noam Yuchtman (London School of Economics), Karolina Hutkova (London School of Economics), Ernesto Dal Bó,...
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