The Long Run Blog

Home > The Long Run Blog
‘A collection of unruly gentlemen?’: explaining the English Parliament’s functioning, 1660-1702
17 Apr, 2019
by Kara Dimitruk (Stellenbosch University) This paper was presented at the EHS Annual Conference 2019 in Belfast.   How organised...
Initial determinants of Mexican mass migration
16 Apr, 2019
by David Escamilla-Guerrero (London School of Economics) This paper was presented at the EHS Annual Conference 2019 in Belfast.  ...
Deindustrialisation in ‘troubled’ Belfast: evidence of the links between factory closures and sectarianism – and lessons from the community response
11 Apr, 2019
by Christopher Lawson (University of California, Berkeley) This paper was presented at the EHS Annual Conference 2019 in Belfast....
Almshouses in early modern England: charitable housing in the mixed economy of welfare 1550-1725
9 Apr, 2019
review by David Hitchcock (Christ Church University) book written by Angela Nicholls ‘Almshouses in early modern England: charitable housing...
Unequal pay in Victorian Britain
3 Apr, 2019
by Chris Minns (LSE) and Emma Griffin (UEA)   Women made a vital contribution to the labour force in Victorian Britain. Census evidence...
Social mobility and inequality in the Republic of Venice, 1400-1700
2 Apr, 2019
by Guido Alfani (Bocconi University, Milan, Dondena Centre and IGIER)     Recent research in economic history has unearthed previously unknown...
The Greek public debt restructuring of 2018 through the lens of history
1 Apr, 2019
by Olga Christodoulaki   In June 2018, relief was granted to Greece for the official sovereign debt by its...
Sources of market disintegration in eighteenth century China
29 Mar, 2019
by Markus Eberhardt (School of Economics, University of Nottingham)   One of the seminal questions in world and Chinese...
De-industrialisation: a case study of Dundee, 1951-2001 – and its broad implications
28 Mar, 2019
by Jim Tomlinson (Economic and Social History, University of Glasgow) This research will be presented during the EHS Annual...
Stealing for the market: the illegitimacy of enslavement in the early modern Atlantic world
25 Mar, 2019
by Judith Spicksley (Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull) This research will be presented during the EHS Annual Conference in...
Family standards of living in England over the very long run
22 Mar, 2019
by Sara Horrell (University of Cambridge), Jane Humphries (University of Oxford), and Jacob Weisdorf (University of Southern Denmark and...
The economic assimilation of Irish famine migrants to the United States
21 Mar, 2019
by William Collins and Ariell Zimran (Vanderbilt University) This research will be presented during the EHS Annual Conference in...
SHAPE