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Could fiscal policy still stimulate the economy?
25 Sep, 2018
by James Cloyne (University of California, Davis), Nicholas Dimsdale (University of Oxford), Natacha Postel-Vinay (London School of Economics)  ...
Lessons for the euro from Italian and German monetary unification in the nineteenth century
20 Sep, 2018
by Roger Vicquéry (London School of Economics) Is the euro area sustainable in its current membership form? My research...
London fog: a century of pollution and mortality, 1866-1965
18 Sep, 2018
by Walker Hanlon (UCLA) For more than a century, London struggled with some of the worst air pollution on...
Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures
11 Sep, 2018
by Beverly Lemire (University of Alberta) The Society has arranged with CUP that a 20% discount is available on...
Small Bills and Petty Finance: co-creating the history of the Old Poor Law
4 Sep, 2018
by Alannah Tomkins (Keele University)  Alannah Tomkins and Professor Tim Hitchcock (University of Sussex), won an AHRC award to...
Wages of sin: slavery and the banks, 1830-50
23 Aug, 2018
by Aaron Graham (University College London)   In 1834, the British Empire emancipated its slaves. This should have quickly...
The UK’s unpaid war debts to the United States, 1917-1980
21 Aug, 2018
by David James Gill (University of Nottingham) We all think we know the consequences of the Great War –...
Judges and the death penalty in Nazi Germany: New research evidence on judicial discretion in authoritarian states
24 Jul, 2018
Do judicial courts in authoritarian regimes act as puppets for the interests of a repressive state – or do...
BAD LOCATIONS: Many French towns have been trapped in obsolete places for centuries
17 Jul, 2018
Only three of the 20 largest cities in Britain are located near the site of Roman towns, compared with...
THE ‘WITCH CRAZE’ OF 16th & 17th CENTURY EUROPE: Economists uncover religious competition as driving force of witch hunts
26 Jun, 2018
Economists Peter Leeson (George Mason University) and Jacob Russ (Bloom Intelligence) have uncovered new evidence to resolve the longstanding puzzle...
British perceptions of German post-war industrial relations
19 Jun, 2018
By Colin Chamberlain (University of Cambridge) ‘Almost idyllic’ – this was the view of one British commentator on the...
Transatlantic Slavery and Abolition: a Pan-European Affair
14 Jun, 2018
By Felix Brahm (German Historical Institute London) and Eve Rosenhaft (University of Liverpool) Slavery Hinterland. Transatlantic Slavery and Continental...
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