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Were Gerschenkron and Palairet right? Industrialization in a small open peasant grain economy: the case of Bulgaria, 1870-1910
12 Jul, 2022
by Martin Ivanov (University of Sofia) and Michael Kopsidis (Leibniz Institute of Agricultural Development in Transition Economies / IAMO)...
When nation building goes south: draft evasion, government repression, and the origins of the Sicilian mafia
24 Jun, 2022
by Gianni Marciante (University of Warwick) This blog is based on a paper presented at the 2022 Economic History...
The occupational structure of the Yangtze Valley in the twentieth century
23 Jun, 2022
by Ying Dai (University of Cambridge) This blog is based on a paper presented at the 2022 Economic History...
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The geography of old age in late-Victorian England and Wales: a postcode lottery?
17 Jun, 2022
by Tom Heritage (University of Cambridge) This blog is based on a paper presented at the 2022 Economic History...
Why has government in Britain become so corrupt?
16 Jun, 2022
by Avner Offer (All Souls College, University of Oxford) This blog post is based on the author’s recently published...
Numeracy levels in the Guarani Jesuit missions
15 Jun, 2022
by Èric Gómez-i-Aznar (University of Barcelona) This blog post is based upon the author’s article forthcoming in the Economic...
The international lender of last resort, 1850–2006
9 Jun, 2022
by Norbert Gaillard (NG Consulting) and Juan Flores Zendejas (University of Geneva) This blog post is based on the...
Demographic trends in late-slavery Jamaica, 1817-32
8 Jun, 2022
by J. R. Ward This blog post is based upon the author’s article forthcoming in the Economic History Review....
Mary Magdalen’s many lives: A longitudinal analysis of women admitted to two English Magdalen homes between 1851 and 1881
26 May, 2022
by Moritz Kaiser (University of Edinburgh) This blog is based on a paper presented at the 2022 Economic History...
Germs and Governance: the past, present and future of hospital infection, prevention and control
25 May, 2022
by Marguerite Dupree (University of Glasgow)   This blog is based on the author’s co-edited volume (with Anne Marie Rafferty...
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The social-democratic road to maternity leave: revisiting the role of social groups in the development of Spanish family policies, 1900-36
17 May, 2022
by Guillem Verd Llabrés (University of Barcelona) New Researcher’s paper presented at the Economic History Society’s  annual conference, 2022,...
Let the punishment fit the man: Manorial amercements for bloodshed in fourteenth-century Yorkshire
6 May, 2022
by Stephanie Brown (University of Cambridge) New Researcher’s paper presented at the Economic History Society’s Annual Conference, 2022, session:...
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