The Long Run Blog - Economic History Society

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...

from VOX – The return of regional inequality: Europe from 1900 to today

22 Mar, 2018

by Joan Rosés (LES) and Nikolaus Wolf (Humboldt University) A recent literature has explored growing personal wealth inequality in...

Gender, ethnicity, and unequal opportunity in colonial Uganda: European influences, African realities, and the pitfalls of parish register data

20 Mar, 2018

by Michiel de Haas and Ewout Frankema (University of Wageningen) The full article is published by The Economic History...

Are businessmen from Mars and businesswomen from Venus? An analysis of female business success and failure in Victorian and Edwardian England

13 Mar, 2018

by Jennifer Aston (Oxford University) and Paulo di Martino (University of Birmingham) The full paper, ‘Risk, success, and failure: female entrepreneurship in...

WHEN ART BECAME AN ATTRACTIVE INVESTMENT: New evidence on the valuation of artworks in wartime France

6 Mar, 2018

by Kim Oosterlinck (Université Libre de Bruxelles) The art market in France during the Nazi occupation provided one...

Modelling regional imbalances in English plebeian migration

27 Feb, 2018

by Adam Crymble (University of Hertfordshire) We often hear complaints of migrant groups negatively influencing British life. Grievances against...

Engineering the industrial revolution (1770-1850)

20 Feb, 2018

by Gillian Cookson (University of Leeds) The Age of Machinery: Engineering the Industrial Revolution, 1770-1850, is published in February...

Late Marriage as a Contributor to the Industrial Revolution in England

13 Feb, 2018

by James Foreman-Peck and Peng Zhou (Cardiff University) A central question of economics is why some nations experienced economic...

RECONSTRUCTION OF MONEY SUPPLY OVER THE LONG RUN: THE CASE OF ENGLAND, 1270-1870

6 Feb, 2018

by Nuno Palma (University of Manchester) — This paper provides the first annual time series of coin and money...

The Public Works Loan Board and the growth of the state in nineteenth century England

30 Jan, 2018

by Ian Webster The Public Works Loan Board was formed in 1817, when the government was faced with a...

Writing history as if people mattered

23 Jan, 2018

The editors Paolo Di Martino, Andrew Popp, and Peter Scott present the volume People, places and cultures. Essays in honour...

‘Quakers, Coercion and pre-modern Growth: Why Friends’ Formal Institutions for Contract Enforcement Did Not Matter for Early Modern Trade Expansion’

18 Jan, 2018

by Ester Sahle (University of Bremen) In the wake of the Libor scandal in 2012, Barclay’s bank suffered severe...