EHS Annual Conference 2025
University of Strathclyde
Technology & Innovation Centre
4 – 6 April 2025
Provisional Conference Programme
Friday 4 April
0900-1030 Meeting of Economic History Society Publications Committee (Room 8)
1030-1330 Meeting of Economic History Society Council (Room 4/5)
1200-1700 Registration (Level 2 [ground floor])
1400-1530 New Researchers’ Session I (8 parallel sessions)
NRIA: Famines and Natural Disasters
(chair: Charles Read) (Auditorium B)
Echoes of Ireland: The 1866 Financial Crisis, British India, and the Orissa Famine
Yasser Alvi (University of Cambridge)
Does Drought Cause Famine? Geography and Mortality in 1877-79 Northeast Brazil
Klaus Fonseca Hoeltgebaum (Wageningen University)
The Impact of Extreme Climate on Agriculture: The Case of the British Colonial Caribbean, 1850-1960
Julia Schlosser (University of Bern)
NRIB: Women, Work and Technology
(chair: Catherine Schenk) (Auditorium C)
The Machine Before Mechanisation: Typewriters, Women’s Work and City of London Banks, 1870-1939
Kirsty Peacock (University of Oxford)
Printing and Women: The Gendered Impact of Printing Technology in China
Nina Liu (King’s College London)
The Effect of A Woman-Friendly Occupation on Employment: U.S. Postmasters Before WWII
Sophie Li (University of Southern Denmark)
NRIC: Migration Decisions and their Effects
(chair: Chris Minns) (Room 1)
Migrant Voices
Etienne Bacher & Martin Fernandez (Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research)
Can Migrant Preferences Shape Local Politics? Evidence from Argentina
Andrés Martignano (University of Nottingham)
Kinship Networks and Emigration: A Case Study of 19th– and Early 20th-Century Guangdong, China
Tianning Zhu (London School of Economics)
NRID: Development of Textile Industries
(chair: Peter Maw) (Room 2)
Development of the Marketing and Credit in the London Linen Trade, c.1750-1830
Akihiro Tsuzaki (University of Leeds)
Silk or Dye? The Economic Interplay of Cochineal and Silk in Colonial New Spain
Paula González Fons (European University Institute)
NRIE: Trade and Growth
(chair: Esther Sahle) (Room 3)
How to Solve the Tariff-Growth Paradox? Do Higher Tariffs Relate to Higher Growth in the First Globalization?
Sebastian Geschonke (Humboldt University Berlin)
The External Market Effect: Evidence from 18th-Century Britain
Syed Mohib Ali Ahmed (Università di Siena)
Transition to a Permanent Capital: EIC Stockholding and Stock Trading, 1660-79
Zane Jennings (London School of Economics)
NRIF: Successes and Limits of Regulation
(chair: Jonathan Chapman) (Room 8)
“Dissipating the Steam”: How Spatial Spillovers Influenced the Diffusion of Steam Engines in the British Industrial Revolution
Sara Savini (University of Insubria)
Procompetitive Effects of State Antitrust Laws: Evidence from the Progressive Era
Anne Schaller (Vanderbilt University)
Big Tobacco: Monopoly Power and Competition Policy in the Post-War British Cigarette Market
Kyle Richmond (Queen’s University Belfast)
NRIG: Latin American Trade
(chair: Dror Goldberg) (Room 6)
The Legacy of the Manila Galleon in the First Globalization: Continuity and Change in Transpacific Asian-Latin American Trade, 1876-1938
Songlin Wang, Anna Carreras Marín & José Peres Cajías (University of Barcelona)
Trade Shocks, Import-Substitution, and Power in the Periphery: Strikes in Buenos Aires, 1907-39
Juan Pablo Juliá (University of Gothenburg)
The Bretton Woods System Outside the G10: Multilateralisation of Trade and Payments in Latin America’s Southern Cone, 1947-62
Uziel González-Aliaga (University of Oxford)
NRIH: The British Economy Post 1945
(chair: Jim Tomlinson) (Room 7)
Fighting for Free Enterprise: Business, the Institute of Directors and the Rise of Neoliberalism in Britain, 1945-79
Joseph Moore (University of Manchester)
The 1980s as a Laboratory for the Redefinition of European Identity: Lord Cockfield’s White Paper as a Case Study
Simone Oggionni (Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata)
Britain-Japan Trade War in the Late 1970s: The Agendas of the Labour Government, TUC, CBI and the Japanese Government
Masa Yasunaga (Keio University)
1530-1600 Tea (Levels 2 & 3)
1600-1730 New Researchers’ Session II (8 parallel sessions)
NRIIA: Networks and Communities
(chair: Chris Colvin) (Room 1)
The Business of Human Bondage: Barings Bank, its Archive, and the Atlantic Slave Trade
Arina Zarei (University of Leeds)
Bugged Out: Locust Plagues and Internal Migration Patterns in 19th-Century US
Aurélie Gillen (University of Luxembourg)
The Role of Community in the Growth of Indian Joint-Stock Banking, 1920-69
Pallavi Singh (Queen’s University Belfast)
NRIIB: Education and Forms of Knowledge
(chair: Eric Melander) (Auditorium B)
Communicating with Numbers: Numeracy and Economic Life in Britain, 1650–1800
James Fox (University of St Andrews)
Early Modern Academies, Universities and Growth
Chiara Zanardello (Université Catholique de Louvain)
Educational Legacies of Christian Missions: Evidence from the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Coralie Hirschi (Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne), Etienne Le Rossignol (Namur University) & Pierre Donat-Bouillud (Programming Research Lab)
NRIIC: Impacts of War and Crises
(chair: Victoria Gierok) (Auditorium C)
Public Goods and Conflict: The Consequences of First Carlist War on Liberal State Expansion in the Former Kingdom of Valencia, 1833-1930
Víctor Fernández-Modrego (Universitat de Valencia)
One Question at a Time: The Impact of the American Civil War on Mobilisation for Women’s Suffrage
Alice Calder (UNSW Sydney)
Are Bank and Non-Bank Lending Complements or Substitutes? The Impact of the 1848 Financial Crisis on Notarized Credit in Antwerp
Maite de Sola Perea, Ruben Peeters & Marc Deloof (University of Antwerp)
NRIID: China Over the Long Run
(chair: Melanie Meng Xue) (Room 2)
A Millennium of (Un)Change: Lending Interest Rates and Money Supply in China, 618-1911
Yangyang Liu (London School of Economics)
Marco Polo and His Impact on China’s Modernisation through Christian Missionaries
Senhao Hu, Zhiwu Chen & Xinhao Li (University of Hong Kong)
“Storing Wealth among the People”: The Shifting Dynamics of Economic Thought in Late Qing China
Lei Lei (SOAS, University of London)
NRIIE: Investment Strategies
(chair: Mohamed Saleh) (Room 3)
The Origin, Nature, and Development of FDI Policy Regimes in Early Postcolonial Philippines, Indonesia and Malaysia, 1945-69
Bram Hulshoff (Wageningen University)
Banking on the South: The Impact of CasMez’s Funding Strategies on Southern Italian Firms
Michele Zampa (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies)
Collusion, Elites and Foreign Entities: The Case of Late Tsarist Russia, 1899-1913
Mariya Sakharova (Aix-Marseille University)
NRIIF: Markets: Information and Asymmetries
(chair: John Turner) (Room 8)
Does Options Trading Matter for Risk Management? Insights from the 1936 Options Ban on U.S. Futures Markets
Elissa Iorgulescu (University of Hohenheim) & Fiona Höllmann (University of Münster)
Painting Lemons? The Value of Information in the Art Market
Luisa Bicalho Ritzkat (London School of Economics)
The Long-Term Effects of Historical Gender Imbalances on Adolescents
Aleksandra Erakhtina (University of Technology Sydney)
NRIIG: Economic Change in the Regional and Local Perspective
(chair: Andrew Wareham) (Room 6)
The Dissolution of the Monasteries and the Long-Term Evolution of Landholding Inequality in Devon
Nicholas Peyton (London School of Economics)
Local Elites vs Central Powers: Government Resource Allocation in the British West Indies, 1838-1938
Fabio Gatti, Eric Strobl (University of Bern) & Luisito Bertinelli (University of Luxembourg)
The Toxic Political Economy of Petrochemicals and Grangemouth in the mid-20th Century
Riyoko Shibe (University of Glasgow)
NRIIH: Levelling, Stability and Association
(chair: _) (Room 7)
Unions and the Great Levelling: Evidence from Across the Atlantic
William Skoglund & Jakob Molinder (Uppsala University)
Beyond Stability: Rethinking Experimentalist Causal Inference and Counterfactuals in Economic History
Timo Stieglitz (Humboldt University Berlin)
The Associative Order in the Netherlands: Historical Analysis of its Development, Functioning and Wellbeing Effects in the Dutch Housing Sector, 1848-2020
Chris Vlam (Utrecht University)
1730-1830 Open meeting for women in economic history (all welcome) (Room 4/5)
1730-1830 Council reception for NRs and 1st-time delegates (Level 2)
1830-1915 Plenary lecture (Auditoria B/C)
The Use of Financial History as a Forecasting Tool – Thirty Years of Practice
Russell Napier (The Library of Mistakes)
1930-2015 Civic Reception, hosted by Bailie Norman MacLeod (Glasgow City Chambers)
(all delegates welcome)
2015-2300 Dinner & Bar (Glasgow City Chambers) delegates must pre-book at registration
Saturday 5 April
0900-1030 Academic Session I (8 parallel sessions)
ASIA: Migration: Push and Pull Factors
(chair: Louis Henderson) (Auditorium B)
Kinship and Opportunity: Swedish Chain Migration to the United States, 1880-1920
Marcos Castillo, Martin Dribe & Jonas Helgertz (Lund University)
A Century of Language and Migration in India
James Fenske (University of Warwick), Latika Chaudhary (Naval Postgraduate School) & Yannick Dupraz (French National Center for Scientific Research)
Internal Migration, Local Development and Structural Change: Evidence from the Italian Golden Age
Paolo Piselli, Paolo Croce (Bank of Italy), Andrea Ramazzotti (University of Naples Federico II) & Matteo Filippi (University of Zurich)
ASIB: Questioning Economic Theories and Categories
(chair: Sarah Washbrook) (Room 1)
How Modern was Early Modern Portugal?
Graça Almeida Borges (Autonomous University of Lisbon) & Lisbeth Rodrigues (University of Porto)
When was the Scottish Economy?
Jim Tomlinson (University of Glasgow)
The Theory of Economic History Revisited
Mark Casson (University of Reading)
ASIC: Brand Power and Risk: Economic Game-Changing Strategies in Late Medieval Europe
(chair: Sari Yehuda Nassar) (Room 2)
Crafting Prestige through Merchant Marks, or How to Create a Company Image in Late Middle Ages?
Gerard Mari Brull (University of Barcelona)
Torralba’s Enterprise: Marketing Strategy and Risk Management in the 15th-Century Crown of Aragon
María Dolores López Pérez & Sari Yehuda Nassar (University of Barcelona)
Hidden Figures: Women Merchants and Their Role in Risk Management and Marketing in the Late Medieval Mediterranean
Martina Del Popolo (Institución Milá y Fontanals de Investigación en Humanidades, CSIC) & Gemma Teresa Colesanti (ISPC – CNR Italia)
ASID: Premodern Inequality
(chair: Mattia Fochesato) (Room 3)
Assessing Ancient Inequalities: Hellenistic Delos
Marco Martinez (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna) & Filippo Battistoni (University of Pisa)
Estimating Income Inequality in Rural Roman Egypt
Philipp Erfurth (UNIBO)
Predictive Modelling the Past: A New Machine Learning Method Applied to Seven Centuries of Wages
Meredith Paker (Grinnell College), Judy Stephenson (University College London) & Patrick Wallis (London School of Economics)
ASIE: New Approaches to ‘Big’ Historical Data
(chair: Harry Smith) (Auditorium C)
Railways and the Happy Danes
Christian Vedel, Paul Sharp (University of Southern Denmark), Tom Görges (TU Dortmund University) & Magnus Ørberg (University of Copenhagen)
Census Linking with British Data
Hillary Vipond (Complexity Science Hub Vienna)
Improving Historical Census Transcriptions: A Machine Learning Approach
Torben Johansen, Christian Dahl (University of Southern Denmark), Munir Squires & Sam Hwang (University of British Columbia)
ASIF: Capitalism and Finance in Colonial Africa and India
(chair: John Turner) (Room 7)
Shareholder Protection at the Dawn of Modern Capitalism in the Cape Colony
Lloyd Maphosa (Queen’s University Belfast)
An Investigation into South Africa’s Impact on the International Monetary System during the Interwar Gold Standard
Christie Swanepoel (University of the Western Cape)
The Cosmopolitan Calcutta ‘Bazaar’, 1919-39
Jayati Bhattacharya (Independent Scholar)
ASIG: Democracy and Justice
(chair: Stuart Henderson) (Room 6)
Freehold Land, Resistance to Authoritarianism and Support for Democracy
Adrien Montalbo (IESEG School of Management)
The Glorious Revolution that Wasn’t: Rural Elite Conflict and Demand for Democratization
Mohamed Saleh (London School of Economics) & Allison Hartnett (University of Southern California)
Public Spending and the Political Economy of Criminal Justice in the UK since 1850
David Churchill, Jose Pina-Sanchez (University of Leeds), Thomas Guiney (University of Nottingham) & Oriol Sabate Domingo (University of Barcelona)
ASIH: Invention and Innovation
(chair: Bang Nguyen) (Room 4/5)
Women Inventors
Sabrina Di Addario (Bank of Italy), Michela Giorcelli (University of California) & Agata Maida (Università degli Studi di Milano)
The Ecological Costs of Product Innovation: Evidence from the Stoke Potteries, 1790-1914
Spike Sweeting (V&A Museum)
Financing Innovation: The Role of Patent Examination
Chris Colvin, Christopher Coyle (Queen’s University Belfast) & Stephen Billington (Ulster University)
0900-1030 Meet the Editor (by invitation only) (Room 8)
1030-1100 Coffee (Levels 2 & 3)
1100-1230 Academic Session II (8 parallel sessions)
ASIIA: Improvements in Transportation and their Effects
(chair: Roberto Ganau) (Room 1)
Sailing Ship Technology, Navigation and the Duration of Voyages to Australia, 1848-85
Tim Hatton (University of Essex)
Railroads, Market Access, and Indigenous Land Dispossession
Jeff Chan, Azim Essaji (Wilfrid Laurier University) & Rob Gillezeau (University of Toronto)
Railways and Literacy in 19th-Century Italy
Georgios Tsiachtsiras (Ernst & Young), Carlo Ciccarelli & Daniela Vuri (University of Rome, Tor Vergata)
ASIIB: Women in Work
(chair: Janet Casson) (Auditorium B)
A New Longitudinal Dataset of Canadian Women, 1871-1901: Preliminary Findings
Chris Minns, Tianning Zhu (London School of Economics), Kris Inwood, Luiza Antonie (University of Guelph) & Fraser Summerfield (St Francis Xavier University)
Mismeasuring Women’s Work
Joyce Burnette (Wabash College)
Gender Pay Gap in US Science
Bang Nguyen & Yasemin Özdemir (University of Bayreuth)
ASIIC: UK Public Finances in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
(chair: Nektarios Aslanidis) (Auditorium C)
Who Ran on Overend-Gurney? Evidence from the Bank of England Private Drawing Accounts
Pamfili Antipa (London School of Economics) & Kilian Rieder (Paris School of Economics & Österreichische Nationalbank)
The Bank of England’s Retail Price Index, 1931-39
Aashish Velkar (University of Manchester)
The Moral Hazard of Devolution? The Evolution of Northern Ireland’s Public Finances, 1920-72
David Jordan ( Queen’s University Belfast)
ASIID: Income and Wealth Inequality since 1600
(chair: Coşkun Tunçer) (Room 4/5)
Survival of the Richest in Germany, 1600-1900
Daniel Göttlich (University of Zurich) & Felix Selgert (University of Bonn)
Credit Market as a Social Network: Analysis of the Debts of the Russian Nobility at the End of the 18th Century
Elena Korchmina (University of Bologna), Maria Aksenova & Fuad Aleskerov (HSE)
Using Microsimulations to Estimate Historical Income Distributions at High Frequency: Italy, 1861-2021
Giulia Mancini (University of Sassari), Brian A’Hearn (University of Oxford), Nicola Amendola, Federico Belotti & Giovanni Vecchi (University of Rome, Tor Vergata)
ASIIE: Medieval and Early Modern Plagues
(chair: Alexandra Sapoznik) (Room 3)
Disruption of Production and Consumption Patterns of Large Flemish Landlords during the Plague Episodes of the 14th Century
Stef Espeel (University of Antwerp)
Plagues, Wars and Wages in Late Medieval Normandy
Cédric Chambru (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon) & Paul Maneuvrier-Hervieu (University of Milan)
Transport and the Transmission of Plague across Settlements in Early Modern England
Eric Schneider (London School of Economics), Charles Udale & Henry Yeomans (Independent Scholars)
ASIIF: Drivers of State and Economic Development in China
(chair: Bishnupriya Gupta) (Room 2)
Local Knowledge and State Capacity: Evidence from Chinese Gazetteers
Chicheng Ma, Xinxian Li (University of Hong Kong) & Ningxi Liu (King’s College London)
The Fiscal Roots of Mass Action Incidents in Late Qing China, 1901-11
Hanzhi Deng (Fudan University)
Regional Wages and Gender Gaps in Early 20th-Century China
Ye Ma (Beijing Normal University)
ASIIG: The Impacts of War
(chair: Marvin Suesse) (Room 6)
Winning the War without Taxing the Subjects: The Impact of the Revolution on State Building in Mexico
Luz Marina Arias (Universidad de Salamanca) & Luis De la Calle (University of Warwick)
Financial Distress Under Warfare: The Intertwined History of Spain and France during the Early 1800s
Miguel Ortiz Serrano (CUNEF University of Madrid) & Vincent Bignon (National Bank of France)
Milk Wars: Creamery Contestation and the Irish War of Independence
Paul Sharp, Christian Volmar, Christian Vedel (University of Southern Denmark) & Eoin McLaughlin (Heriot-Watt University)
ASIIH: Productivity in the Cotton Industry
(chair: Pamina Koenig) (Room 7)
Forms of Import Substitution and Technological Change: A Comparative Study of Indian Cottons in Britain and France
Alka Raman (University College London)
New Estimates of Productivity in British Cotton Spinning, 1780-1860
Peter Maw (University of Leeds) & Alexander Tertzakian (University of Glasgow)
Indian Guinée Cloth Revisited: Indigo Dyeing Methods, Mass Produced Items, and Emergence of Global Capitalism
Toyomu Masaki (Kanazawa University)
1100-1230 Meet the Editor (by invitation only) (Room 8)
1230-1345 Lunch (Levels 2 & 3)
1230-1345 New Researcher Poster Session (Level 2)
Educational Expansion and Inequality in Ethiopia, 1940-2018
Mesfin Ali (Wageningen University)
The Porous Iron Curtain
Marco Cokic (London School of Economics)
Financing the Foe: Trans-Imperial Investment in the South Sea Company
Camilla de Koning (University of Manchester)
Work, Marriage, or Motherhood? Analysis of Women’s Employment and Fertility Histories, 1881-1911
Emma Diduch (University of Cambridge)
From Tracks to Fields: Gold Rush, Railways, and Agricultural Expansion in Colonial Victoria, 1860-1930
Costanza Maria Fileccia & Eric Strobl (University of Bern)
The Political Economies of Pre-Hispanic Guerrero
Abbey Finn (University of Edinburgh)
Take thee to a Nunnery: The Rise of Convents in 19th-Century France
Florentine Friedrich (London School of Economics)
Water Mills and Human Capital Accumulation in Industrializing Prussia
Malte Hinrichs (Queen’s University Belfast)
The Fabric of Inequality in the Developing World: Property, Markets, or Redistribution?
Andrés Irarrazával Garcia Huidobro (London School of Economics)
The Impact of European Settlers on Native Americans Health: A Gender Inequality Perspective
Sophia Jung (University of Tübingen)
How Did Japan Absorb Foreign Manufacturing Knowledge to Become Asia’s First Industrial Nation?
Tom Learmouth (London School of Economics)
Hong Kong Banking Crises 1866-2010: Identification, Causes and Consequences
Yibin Liu (Queen’s University Belfast)
The Legacy of Rubber: The Persistent Effects of Colonial Extractive Systems in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Adrià Mateu-Romero (University of Mannheim)
Occupational Reinvention: Evidence from a Century of Task and Technology Data
Thomas Monk (London School of Economics)
Fields of Despair: Land Property Rights and the Galician Diaspora
Ángel Muñiz-Mejuto (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
The Western Exception: Declining Inequality and Persistent Political Cleavages in Portugal
Carlos Oliveira (Paris School of Economics)
The Decline of Seigniorial Agriculture: How Risk and Reward Transferred to Yeoman Farmers
Gregory Salter (London School of Economics)
A Politically Centralized State with Decentralized Currencies? A Monetary Exploration of China’s Song Dynasty, 960-1279 AD
Zoey Ziyue Shen (London School of Economics)
Garibaldi’s Expedition: The Rise and Fall of Charismatic Leadership
Andrea Tizzani (European University Institute)
The Difference a House Makes: Real Estate Ownership and Wealth Inequality in Belgium, 1810-1950
Daan Van den bussche (University of Antwerp)
1345-1515 Academic Session III (8 parallel sessions)
ASIIIA: Slave Trade
(chair: Leigh Gardner) (Auditorium B)
Turning Points in the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, 1544-1866
Jose Rowell Corpuz (University of Warwick)
British Financing of the Portuguese Atlantic Trade: John Gore and the Purry, Mellish and Devisme Company
Alain Naef (ESSEC Business School) & Ricardo Borrmann (University of Neuchâtel)
Hidden Sins: The Impact of Slave Trade in Catalonia’s Industrialisation
Jose Miguel Sanjuan (Universidad Autònoma Barcelona)
ASIIIB: Sustainable Development
(chair: Martin Chick) (Room 1)
Sustainable Water: Consumption, Costs, and Social Conflicts around a Strategic Natural Resource, Northern Italy, 1500-1800
Matteo Di Tullio (Università di Pavia) & Giulio Ongaro (University of Milan-Bicocca)
From Storms to Credit Crunches in 19th– and 20th-Century America
Joel Huesler, Eric Strobl, (University of Bern) & Michael Brei (University of Lille)
Import Substitution Industrialisation: The Bicycle in Early Israel
Dror Goldberg (Open University Israel)
ASIIIC: Agents and Networks in Finance and Trade
(chair: Marianna Astore) (Room 2)
Women’s Financial Agency in Late Medieval Capital Markets: Mechanisms behind the Change through the Viennese Example
Anna Molnár (King’s College London)
The Structural Difference in the 18th-Century North-Western European Credit Markets: The Calculation of Shadow Interest Rate
Ling-Fan Li (National Tsing Hua University)
Agents, Representatives and Networks of Commerce in Late 19th-Century Britain
Gill Newton, Graeme Acheson (University of Strathclyde) & Linda Perriton (University of Stirling)
ASIIID: Comparing Living Standards
(chair: Joyce Burnette) ((Auditorium C)
Canadian Evidence on the American Antebellum Puzzle
Matthew Curtis (University of Southern Denmark) & Vincent Geloso (George Mason University)
How Poor Was the Impoverished Sophisticate? Swedish Living Standards in Comparative Perspective
Johan Ericsson (Uppsala University)
Local Cost of Living, Real Wages and Regional Divides in Italy since the Second World War
Andrea Ramazzotti (CSEF, University of Naples Federico II)
ASIIIE: Disease and Mortality
(chair: Alan de Bromhead) (Room 4/5)
Marshes, Mosquitoes and Malaria: Land Improvements and Demographic Development in Denmark, 1750-1900
Mathias Ingholt (University of Cambridge)
Cities, Connectivity and Cholera: The Demon of Density Revisited
Kalle Kappner (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Urban-Rural Differences in the Socioeconomic Gradient in Mortality: Sweden, 1880-2015
Jonas Helgertz & Martin Dribe (Lund University)
ASIIIF: Economy and Prosperity in Pre-War Japan
(chair: Aashish Velkar) (Room 3)
Inter-Sectoral Flow of Funds in Japan since 1871
Hiroyuki Fujiwara (Bank of Japan)
Consumption Smoothing in Metropolis: Evidence from Working-class Households in Pre-war Tokyo
Kota Ogasawara (Institute of Science Tokyo)
The Impact of Industrial Growth on Regional Prosperity: The Case of Japan’s Textile Industry and Population Change in the 1930s
Hitomi Hohri-Imaizumi (Institute of Science Tokyo)
ASIIIG: Monetary Finance in the World Wars
(chair: Pamfili Antipa) (Room 6)
German Hyperinflation: Was it Really Monetary Financing?
Miklos Vari (ESSEC Business School) & Eric Monnet (Paris School of Economics)
Expectations and Inflation: Evidence from Surprise Events in China during the Second World War
Zhenyu Luo, Zhihao Xu, Bo Li (Tsinghua University) & Gary Richardson (University of California Irvine)
The Price of Gold in Wartime: A Barometer of Greek Expectations during the Nazi Occupation
Olga Christodoulaki (Independent Scholar), Haeran Cho (University of Bristol) & Piotr Fryzlewicz (London School of Economics)
ASIIIH: The Rise and Decline of Manufacturing
(chair: Edmund Cannon) (Room 7)
Minorities and Industrialisation: Evidence from the Russian Empire
Marvin Suesse (Trinity College Dublin) & Elena Korchmina (University of Bologna)
A Country for Incumbents? Evidence on Manufacturing Investments in Italy in the 20th Century
Dario Pellegrino (Bank of Italy)
Industrial Exposure, Deindustrialization, and their Political Effects from the New Deal to the 21st Century
Paul Maneuvrier-Hervieu & Anne-Marie Jeannet (University of Milan)
1400-1530 Meet the Editor (by invitation only) (Room 8)
1515-1545 New Researcher Poster Session (Level 2)
Educational Expansion and Inequality in Ethiopia, 1940-2018
Mesfin Ali (Wageningen University)
The Porous Iron Curtain
Marco Cokic (London School of Economics)
Financing the Foe: Trans-Imperial Investment in the South Sea Company
Camilla de Koning (University of Manchester)
Work, Marriage, or Motherhood? Analysis of Women’s Employment and Fertility Histories, 1881-1911
Emma Diduch (University of Cambridge)
From Tracks to Fields: Gold Rush, Railways, and Agricultural Expansion in Colonial Victoria, 1860-1930
Costanza Maria Fileccia & Eric Strobl (University of Bern)
The Political Economies of Pre-Hispanic Guerrero
Abbey Finn (University of Edinburgh)
Take thee to a Nunnery: The Rise of Convents in 19th-Century France
Florentine Friedrich (London School of Economics)
Water Mills and Human Capital Accumulation in Industrializing Prussia
Malte Hinrichs (Queen’s University Belfast)
The Fabric of Inequality in the Developing World: Property, Markets, or Redistribution?
Andrés Irarrazával Garcia Huidobro (London School of Economics)
The Impact of European Settlers on Native Americans Health: A Gender Inequality Perspective
Sophia Jung (University of Tübingen)
How Did Japan Absorb Foreign Manufacturing Knowledge to Become Asia’s First Industrial Nation?
Tom Learmouth (London School of Economics)
Hong Kong Banking Crises 1866-2010: Identification, Causes and Consequences
Yibin Liu (Queen’s University Belfast)
The Legacy of Rubber: The Persistent Effects of Colonial Extractive Systems in the Democratic Republic of Congo
Adrià Mateu-Romero (University of Mannheim)
Occupational Reinvention: Evidence from a Century of Task and Technology Data
Thomas Monk (London School of Economics)
Fields of Despair: Land Property Rights and the Galician Diaspora
Ángel Muñiz-Mejuto (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
The Western Exception: Declining Inequality and Persistent Political Cleavages in Portugal
Carlos Oliveira (Paris School of Economics)
The Decline of Seigniorial Agriculture: How Risk and Reward Transferred to Yeoman Farmers
Gregory Salter (London School of Economics)
A Politically Centralized State with Decentralized Currencies? A Monetary Exploration of China’s Song Dynasty, 960-1279 AD
Zoey Ziyue Shen (London School of Economics)
Garibaldi’s Expedition: The Rise and Fall of Charismatic Leadership
Andrea Tizzani (European University Institute)
The Difference a House Makes: Real Estate Ownership and Wealth Inequality in Belgium, 1810-1950
Daan Van den bussche (University of Antwerp)
1515-1545 Tea (Levels 2 & 3)
1545-1715 Academic Session IV (8 parallel sessions)
ASIVA: Legacies of Slavery
(chair: Jonathan Chapman) (Auditorium 2)
Impact of Enslavement Conditions on Families: Evidence from the French Caribbean
Marie Beigelman (Toulouse School of Economics)
From Bondage to the Free Labour Market: Living Standards in the Caribbean for a Century after Emancipation
Dimitrios Theodoridis (Stockholm University) & Klas Rönnbäck (Gothenburg University)
Tasks and Black-White Inequality over the Long 20th Century
Rowena Gray (UC Merced), Siobhan O’Keefe (Davidson College), Sarah Quincy (Vanderbilt University) & Zachary Ward (Baylor University)
ASIVB: The Long-Term Impacts of the Habsburgs
(chair: Max-Stephan Schulze) (Room 1)
Enlightenment and the Long-Term Persistence of the Habsburg Administrative Tradition
Roberto Ganau, Giulio Cainelli & Nadiia Matsiuk (University of Padova)
Borderlands and Bloodlands: The Habsburg Military Frontier and Regional Development in Croatia
Leonard Kukic (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Why Railways Fail: Colonial Railways and Economic Development in Habsburg Bosnia-Herzegovina
Magnus Neubert (IAMO Halle & MLU Halle-Wittenberg) & Stefan Nikolić (Loughborough University)
ASIVC: Finance in Latin America
(chair: Catherine Schenk) (Room 2)
The Gold Standard in the Periphery: The Rules of the Game without a Central Bank
Nektarios Aslanidis (Universitat Rovira i Virgili) & Gastón Díaz (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
Uruguay, Argentina, the Gold Standard and the Baring Crisis
Gastón Díaz (Universidad de la República, Uruguay)
Tariff Discrimination and Bilateral Trade in Argentina, 1923-38
Markus Lampe (WU Vienna), Juan Pablo Julià (University of Gothenburg), Kevin O’Rourke (CNRS and Sciences Po, Paris) & Sarah Washbrook (University of Southern Denmark)
ASIVD: Global Labour and Divergence
(chair: Leandro Prados de la Escosura) (Auditorium C)
Innovation and the Great Divergence
Stephen Broadberry (University of Oxford) & Runzhuo Zhai (Renmin University)
Wrecking their Hopes? The Effect of Travel Risk Assessment on Migration Decisions
Richard Franke (Trinity College Dublin) & Nina Boberg-Fazlic (TU Dortmund University and CEPR)
Long-Run Impact of Pandemics on Labour Market: Evidence from Six European Countries, 1870-2020
Guillaume Morel, Giovanni Forchini (Umeå University), Seunghyun Hong & Katharina Hauck (Imperial College London)
ASIVE: Wills as Historical Sources: New Methods, Tools and Perspectives
(chair: Eric Schneider) (Room 4/5)
Wealth Inequality in England 1258-1858: Evidence from Wills
Neil Cummins & Aurelius Noble (London School of Economics)
The Material Culture of Wills: Preliminary Findings
Harry Smith (University of Exeter)
The Persistence of Wealth Shocks: England 1700-2024
Gregory Clark (University of Southern Denmark)
ASIVF: Twentieth-Century Ireland
(chair: Safya Morshed) (Room 3)
Protestantism and Human Capital: Evidence from Early 20th-Century Ireland
Alan Fernihough (Queen’s University Belfast) & Stuart Henderson (Ulster University)
The Use of Consumer Boycotts in Revolutionary Ireland, 1918-23
Anna Devlin (Trinity College Dublin)
Taking a Punt: Monetary Experimentation and the Irish Macroeconomic Crisis of 1955-56
Eoin McLaughlin (Heriot-Watt University) & Sean Kenny (University College Cork)
ASIVG: Society in Early Modern Britain
(chair: Judy Stephenson) (Room 6)
Health-Wealth Trade-Offs and Migration Decisions in Early Modern England
Romola Davenport & Max Satchell (University of Cambridge)
Implementing the Old Poor Laws in Early-Stuart Wales
Frances Richardson (University of Oxford)
Alienated Intellectuals? Exploring the Political Consequences of the Educational Revolution in Early Modern England
Julius Koschnick (University of Southern Denmark) & Alexandra de Pleijt (Wageningen University)
ASIVH: Post-War Economic Performance
(chair: Miguel Ángel Ortiz-Serrano) (Room 7)
Constructive Destruction? How Allied Bombing Facilitated Germany’s Rise to Riches
Thilo R. Huning (University of York), Hans-Joachim Voth (University of Zurich) & Fabian Wahl (WU Vienna)
Revisiting the Role of Profits in the Collapse of Britain’s Post-War Consensus
Robert Calvert Jump (University of Greenwich)
Property Rights, the Common Heritage of Mankind, and the Deep-Sea Bed since 1945
Martin Chick (University of Edinburgh)
1715-1830 EHS Annual General Meeting (Room 4/5)
1915-2000 Conference Reception & Book Launch (all delegates invited) (Voco Grand Central Hotel)
Kindly supported by: Strathclyde Business School and Boydell & Brewer
2000 Conference Dinner (Voco Grand Central Hotel) delegates must pre-book at registration
Bar available until late (Voco Grand Central Hotel)
Sunday 6 April
0930-1130 Academic Session V (8 parallel sessions)
ASVA: Merchants, Planters, and Slavery in the British Caribbean: In Memory of Trevor Burnard (1960-2024)
(chair: Nuala Zahedieh) (Auditorium B)
Merchant Houses, London Banks, and Plantation Development in the Ceded Islands, 1763-90
Michael Bennett (University of Sheffield)
Gender and Slavery in 17th-Century Barbados and England
Misha Ewen (University of Sussex)
Guinea Factors and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade within the Americas
Nicholas Radburn (University of Lancaster)
Science and Slavery: The Production and Consumption of ‘Useful’ Knowledge in Early English Jamaica
Eleanor Stephenson (University of Cambridge)
ASVB: State Building and Conflict
(chair: Cédric Chambru) (Room 1)
Farewell to the Old Society: Arable Land, Agricultural Taxation, and State Capacity in Northwestern Shanxi across Imperial, Republican and Communist China
Ziang Liu (King’s College London)
Conflict, Climate and State Capacity
Safya Morshed (London School of Economics)
Ways and Means: Charles Davenant’s Excise Diary and the Financial Revolution
Guy Sechrist (University of Tennessee)
‘Remedies for the Sick Man’: Ottoman-British Economic Relations, 1850-1918
şahin Yeşilyurt (Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University)
ASVC: International Finance in the Twentieth Century
(chair: Olga Christodoulaki) (Room 2)
Correspondent Banking and Migrant Remittances: The Case of Banco di Napoli During the First Globalization
Marianna Astore (University of Insubria & University of Oxford)
The Eurobond Market, from its Origins to the Global Shocks of the 1970s: Evidence from a New Dataset
Marco Molteni & Nathan Sussman (Geneva Graduate Institute)
Bonds or Credits? The Inequality of Risk and Sovereign Lending in the Euromarkets: Evidence from Mexico, 1973-82
Sebastian Alvarez (Universidad Adolfo Ibáñez) & Marco Molteni (Geneva Graduate Institute)
Commodity Spot-Future Spreads and Inflation Expectations, 1913-2024
William Quinn (Queen’s University Belfast) & Elissa Iorgulescu (University of Hohenheim)
ASVD: Guilds and Diverging Human Capital and Innovation in Italy’s Regions, 1400-1910
(chair: Patrick Wallis) (Room 3)
The Roots of Innovation: Guilds and Knowledge Transmission in Italy from 17th Century
Francesco Fiore Melacrinis & Mattia Fochesato (Bocconi University)
Networks Paving the Way: Apprenticeship and Occupational Mobility in Early Modern Genoa
Alessandro Brioschi (Queen’s University Belfast)
Forging Human Capital? Guilds and Education in 19th-Century Italy: Evidence from New Spatial Data
Suvi Heikkuri, Gabriele Cappelli (University of Siena) & Andrea Incerpi (Independent Scholar)
Catching the Technological Frontier? The Nexus between Vocational and Technical Education (VTE) and Inventive Activity in Italy, 1861-1911
Pau Insa-Sanchez, Gabriele Cappelli & Michelangelo Vasta (University of Siena)
ASVE: Health and Housing
(chair: Jane Humphries) (Auditorium C)
Was there a Family Economics before 1870? Evidence of Fertility Choice in a Long-Running Natural Experiment, London 1760-1870
Louis Henderson (London School of Economics)
“Good Society and Domestic Comfort that can be Found in a Private Family”: Landladies and the Labour of Respectability in 19th-Century London
Kristina Molin Cherneski (Northumbria University)
Build Back Better Health: Public Housing and the Late 19th-Century Mortality Transition
Alan de Bromhead (University College Dublin), Ronan Lyons (Trinity College Dublin) & Johann Ohler (London School of Economics)
Pick your Poison: Arsenic in Beer and Fertility
Jonathan James (University of Bath)
ASVF: Reputation and Relationships in Early Modern Trade
(chair: Chris Briggs) (Room 4/5)
The Art of Distrust in Long-Distance Trade, 1400-1800
Nadia Matringe (London School of Economics)
Solving Principal-Agent Problems through Apprenticeship: Evidence from Late Medieval Germany
Esther Sahle (Freie Universität Berlin) & Ulla Kypta (University of Hamburg)
Breaking the Ice: The Persistent Effects of Pioneers on Trade Relationships
Tom Raster (London School of Economics)
Filling the Gaps of Early Modern Globalization: A Review of the Volume and Evolution of the Pacific Trade between America and Asia, 1580-1820
Juan José Rivas Moreno (European University Institute)
ASVG: Managing Elections and Public Opinion
(chair: Rowena Gray) (Room 6)
Unpopular Reforms, Social Unrest and Grassroots Political Movements
Eric Melander (University of Birmingham), Konstantin Bakharev (CERGE-EI) & Martina Miotto (University of Padova)
Spread the Word: Mass Media, Language and Propaganda in Fascist Italy
Maxence Castiello (Panthéon-Sorbonne Paris-1)
The Financial Press and the Paradigm Shifts in Monetary Policy in Britain between the 1960s and the 1990s
Charles Read (University of Oxford)
ASVH: Corporate Finance in Modern Britain
(chair: Robert Calvert Jump) (Room 7)
The Bankruptcy Express: Market Integration, Organizational Changes, and Financial distress in 19th-Century Britain
Jean Lacroix (Université Paris Saclay) & Tobias Korn (Universität Hannover)
The Original Gangsters: Big 4 Auditors Before Accounting Regulations Were Legislated
Muhan Hu (University of Strathclyde), Sturla Fjesme (Oslo Metropolitan University), Neal Galpin & Lyndon Moore (Monash University)
End of the Line: Defunct Companies in Britain, 1885-1975
Philip Fliers & Áine Gallagher (Queen’s University Belfast)
The Evolution of Firm Political Connections in the UK, 1880-2024
Linxiang Ma (University of Strathclyde Business School) & Lyndon Moore (Monash University)
1130-1200 Coffee (Levels 2 & 3)
1200-1315 Tawney Lecture (Auditoria B/C)
Economic inequality and social mobility in preindustrial societies: what we know, what we don’t (but should) know
Guido Alfani (Bocconi University)
1315-1415 Lunch (Levels 2 & 3)
1315-1415 Job Market: session for students and postdocs (Room 4/5)
1415 Conference ends
