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Fascist Policy and the Great Depression in Italy

16 Oct, 2025

This blog is based upon the research funded by a grant awarded by the Economic History Society through its...

The Impact of Interest Rates in Eighteenth Century Ireland

14 Oct, 2025

Paul Kelly, the author of this blog, would like to thank the Economic History Society for the receipt of...

From British Rule to Boardrooms: Community in India’s Corporate Economy, 1920s-1970s

6 Oct, 2025

In this post, Pallavi Padma-Uday of Queen’s University Belfast discusses the key themes in her doctoral thesis in Indian...

Adapting Glassmaking Knowledge and Labour Structures in Early Modern Britain

30 Sep, 2025

This blog is based upon the research funded by a grant awarded by the Economic History Society through its...

Community, Educational Reform and Migration in Late Imperial China

24 Sep, 2025

In this blog post, Christoph Hess, who studied for his PhD at the University of Cambridge, introduces his research,...

Women, Money and Markets (1600-1950), 2023 Conference

23 Sep, 2025

In this blog post Dr Sarah Dredge, Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Sheffield Hallam University introduces the Women,...

The Barbados Census of 1679 and the Legacies of Slavery in Early Modern England

17 Sep, 2025

This blog post is based on a grant awarded to Dr Michael Bennett of the University of Sheffield and...

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...