The Long Run Blog - Economic History Society

10 Feb, 2026

In this post, Anna Molnar introduces their research, undertaken while an Economic History Society Power Fellow at King’s College...

Reconsidering women’s role in enclosure protest

9 Feb, 2026

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

The therapeutic uses of economic history: opium and 20th century China

5 Feb, 2026

In this blog post, Lucas Tse of the University of Oxford introduces his research on the international regulation of...

Funding the UK Criminal Justice System: Towards an Historical Perspective

4 Feb, 2026

This blog is based upon research by David Churchill of the University of Leeds, Thomas Guiney of the University...

Economic Nationalism and the Scramble for Critical Minerals

30 Jan, 2026

In this blog post Andrew Perchard (Ōtākou Whakaihu Waka/University of Otago), Roy M. MacLeod (University of Sydney) and Jeremy...

28 Jan, 2026

This blog showcases the research of Andrii Pastushenko of the Simon Kuznets Kharkiv National University of Economics, which was...

A Millennium of (Un)Change: Lending Interest Rates and Money Supply in China, 618 – 1911

26 Jan, 2026

In this blog post, Yangyang Liu of the London School of Economics introduces their research which was supported by...

Legacies and Lessons from the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders Work-In of 1971/72

22 Jan, 2026

This blog post by Mike Power (Oxford Brookes University) reflects research supported by the Economic History Society’s Research Fund...

Threads of Empire: Modes, Materials, and the Making of Textiles

21 Jan, 2026

This blog discusses a workshop on global textile history held at the University of Glasgow on 8-9 September 2025...

Who Cares? Pay and Working Conditions in Social Care in the 1980s and 1990s

14 Jan, 2026

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

When Mercy Became Planning: Italy’s Foundling Wheels and the Hidden Economics of Abandonment

12 Jan, 2026

This blog post by Marco Molteni (University of Turin) and Giuliana Freschi (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa) introduces...

Militantism and Non-Violence in the Women’s Suffrage Movement

19 Dec, 2025

This blog presents an overview of Valeria Rueda at the University of Nottingham’s project, “Militantism and Non Violence in...