The Long Run Blog - Economic History Society

Poverty, Pollution, and Mortality: The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in a Developing German Economy

13 Jan, 2022

by Richard Franke (University of Bayreuth) This blog is based on the author’s presentation to the Economic History Society...

Cyberpunk Victoria

23 Dec, 2021

by Marc Flandreau (University of Pennsylvania and Wharton School) & Geoffroy Legentilhomme (University of Zurich) This blog is based...

Persistence of Natural Disasters on Children’s Health: Evidence from the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923

20 Dec, 2021

by Kota Ogasawara, Tokyo Institute of Technology This blog is based on the author’s paper which has been...

The Qing State’s influence on China’s manufacturing sector of the 1910s: New measurements at the provincial level

17 Dec, 2021

by Ye Ma (Beijing Normal University) This blog is based on the author’s presentation to the 2021 Economic History...

English farmers’ wheat storage and sales in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

7 Dec, 2021

by Liam Brunt (Norwegian School of Economics) and Edmund Cannon (University of Bristol) This blog is based on the...

Faith in the Town: Lay Religion, Urbanisation and Industrialisation in England, 1740-1830

3 Dec, 2021

by Kate Gibson (University of Manchester) This blog is based on the author’s presentation to the 2021 Economic History...

Analysing the actions of the rebels in the English Revolt of 1381: the case of Cambridgeshire

24 Nov, 2021

by Mingjie Xu (Fudan University) This blog is based on the author’s paper published in the Economic History...

Wiring China: The Impact of Telegraph Construction on Grain Market Integration in Late Imperial China, 1870-1911

9 Nov, 2021

This blog is based on the authors’ article which has been published on Early View:https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ehr.13119 by Yu Hao (Peking...

Business Representation in an Autocratic Regime: Tariff Policy and Exchange Committees in Late Tsarist Russia

1 Nov, 2021

by Marina Chuchko (Vienna University of Economics and Business) This blog is based on the author’s article which has...

Missing from parish records: differences in the occupations of Anglican and nonconformist fathers in Wales, 1813-20

22 Oct, 2021

by Frances Richardson (Oxford University) This blog is based on the authors paper presented to the Economic History Society...

Peer pressure: The puzzle of aristocrats’ tax compliance in early nineteenth-century Moscow

20 Oct, 2021

by Elena Korchmina (University of Southern Denmark, Odense) This blog is based on the author’s paper which was recently...

Southern and Northern Italy in the Great Divergence: New Perspectives from the Occupational Structure

12 Oct, 2021

by David Chilosi (King’s College London) and Carlo Ciccarelli (University of Roma Tor Vergata) This blog is based on...