The 2026 Annual Conference celebrated the Society’s 100th anniversary. It was held at the Cheng Kin Ku (CKK) building, London School of Economics, 10 – 12 April.

Conference Programme page.

View the New Researcher Posters.

Prize winners announced at the Conference

NR Paper Prize (3 prize winners)

Sara Benetti (University of British Columbia), The Social Consequences of Technological Change: Evidence from US Electrification and Immigrant Labour

Alessandro Brioschi (Queen’s University Belfast), Asymmetric Shocks in Preindustrial Labour Markets: Evidence from the 1630–1631 Plague in Venice

Malte Hinrichs (Queen’s University Belfast), Leapfrogging or Path Dependence? Water Mills and Long-Run Growth in the Scottish Industrial Revolution

NR Poster Prize (1 prize winner)

Kamelia Stavreva (Columbia University), Skin Tone and Racial Inequality in the US

Thirsk-Feinstein Dissertation Prize (1 prize winner)

Christoph Hess (University of Cambridge), Inheritance, Family Structure, and Economic Development in the Lower Yangzi Region, c.1650–1950

Nicholas Crafts Early Career Award in Economic and/or Social History (1 prize winner)

Emiliano Travieso (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)

Teaching Prize (1 prize winner)

Joseph Caudwell (The Mosslands School)

TS Ashton Prize (1 prize winner)

Louis Henderson (London School of Economics), The expansion of basic education during ‘deskilling’ technological change in England and Wales, c. 1780–1830 

First Monograph Prize (1 prize winner)

Robert Yee (Yale University), The City’s Defense: The Bank of England and the Remaking of Economic Governance, 1914–1939