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The Deindustrialized World
3 May, 2018
by Andrew Perchard (University of Stirling), Lachlan MacKinnon (St Mary’s University – Nova Scotia), and Steven High (Concordia University...
Managing the Economy, Managing the People: narratives of economic life in Britain from Beveridge to Brexit
24 Apr, 2018
by Jim Tomlinson (University of Glasgow)   ‘It’s the economy stupid’, like most clichés, both reveals and conceals important...
Land reform and agrarian conflict in 1930s Spain
19 Apr, 2018
Jordi Domènech (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid) and Francisco Herreros (Institute of Policies and Public Goods, Spanish Higher Scientific...
How did investors view the reforms and supervisory organisations of the late nineteenth century?
17 Apr, 2018
by Avni Önder Hanedar (Sakarya University) In the last couple of decades, high debt burden in emerging economies created...
Social Mobility among Christian Africans: Evidence from Anglican Marriage Registers in Uganda (1895-2011)
12 Apr, 2018
Felix Meier zu Selhausen (University of Sussex) Marco H. D. Van Leeuwen (Utrecht University) Jacob L. Weisdorf (University of...
EHS 2018 special: Foreign sailors in Nelson’s Navy: a forgotten story
10 Apr, 2018
by Sara Caputo (University of Cambridge)    Few aspects of British history have attracted more patriotic enthusiasm than the...
EHS 2018 special: Ownership and control of land by women in nineteenth-century England
9 Apr, 2018
by Janet Casson (independent scholar)   The HS2 train route between London and Birmingham has been modified in response...
A Brief Monetary History of Ireland
7 Apr, 2018
by Seán Kenny (Lund University) and Jason Lennard (Lund University and National Institute of Economic and Social Research)  ...
EHS 2018 special: Upstairs, downstairs? Experiences of female servants in England, 1550-1650
6 Apr, 2018
Charmian Mansell (University of Exeter)   Despite women’s increased participation in the workforce, women in 2014 still carried out...
EHS 2018 special: London’s mortality decline – lessons for modern water policy
5 Apr, 2018
Werner Troeksen (University of Pittsburgh) Nicola Tynan (Dickinson College) Yuanxiaoyue (Artemis) Yang (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health)...
EHS 2018 special: Long-term effects of financial crises
4 Apr, 2018
by Chenzi Xu (Harvard University)   The global financial crisis of 2008 was not unique. It had a precedent...
EHS 2018 special: How the Second World War promoted racial integration in the American South
3 Apr, 2018
by Andreas Ferrara (University of Warwick) European politicians face the challenge of integrating the 1.26 million refugees who arrived in...
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