Patrick Wallis
@patrickwallis.bsky.social
Professor of Economic History, LSE; Apprenticeship. Health. Pharmacy. Work. Wages. and all kinds of history. Plus a bit of running. New book: market for skill coming out with Princeton in March 2025
Economics
42%
History
31%
Risk Management and Maritime Business, comparative views from Early Modern Europe
www.history.ac.uk
Join us on Tuesday 28th at the IHR/online for "Risk Management and Maritime Business: Comparative Views from Early Modern Europe" by the excellent Maria Fusaro (exeter) www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #econhist
Patrick Wallis
@patrickwallis.bsky.social
· Sep 24
Charity Begins at Home–Why Britain resumed the Gold Standard after the French Wars
www.history.ac.uk
The IHR economic and social history seminar restarts next week - Tuesday 30 September - with Pamfili Antipa on "Charity Begins at Home–Why Britain resumed the Gold Standard after the French Wars" hybrid: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/... #econhist #financialhistory
Job Details
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JOB OPPORTUNITY: Associate Professorship in Economic and Social History, Faculty of History and All Souls College, Oxford. Deadline for applications 23 April 2025. @oxford-esh.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
Patrick Wallis
@patrickwallis.bsky.social
· May 16
How did the East India Company become a proper company? Zane Jennings will present his work on the development of a real market in EIC stocks on Tuesday 20 May at the IHR & hybrid www.history.ac.uk/events/east-...
East India Company Capital, 1660-1700
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Zane is @lseechist.bsky.social
Patrick Wallis
@patrickwallis.bsky.social
· May 16
East India Company Capital, 1660-1700
www.history.ac.uk
How did the East India Company become a proper company? Zane Jennings will present his work on the development of a real market in EIC stocks on Tuesday 20 May at the IHR & hybrid www.history.ac.uk/events/east-...
Ruling and Healing: Managing Health and Empire in Qing China 1644-1912
www.history.ac.uk
How did the Qing use medicine to strengthen the empire? Chinese medical and political/economic history... join us at the IHR/online on Tuesday 6 May to hear Yitong Qiu (UCL). register www.history.ac.uk/events/rulin...
Reposted by Patrick Wallis, Heike Bauer
Applications now invited for the Society's Masters' Scholarships 2025-26 bit.ly/4bJs8je
Scholarships support history students, from groups currently underrepresented in academic history, to undertake a Masters' degree at a UK university. Closing date for Stage 1 applications: 6 June #Skystorians
Scholarships support history students, from groups currently underrepresented in academic history, to undertake a Masters' degree at a UK university. Closing date for Stage 1 applications: 6 June #Skystorians
Just had a great conversation about apprenticeship, growth and British history and my book Market for Skill with Miranda Melcher on the @NewBooksNetwork newbooksnetwork.com/the-market-f...
Patrick Wallis
@patrickwallis.bsky.social
· Mar 31
How apprenticeship transformed premodern England | Coffee break research at LSE
YouTube video by LSE
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If you want a short listen on apprenticeship based on my new book, you can see me not looking at the camera here... press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
youtu.be/L4sJnZzbaDU?...
youtu.be/L4sJnZzbaDU?...
Patrick Wallis
@patrickwallis.bsky.social
· Mar 24
Contagious coercion: The effect of plagues on serfdom in the Baltics
www.history.ac.uk
Plague, serfs, coercion? Join us at the IHR on 25 March for Tom Raster (LSE) on 'Contagious coercion: The effect of plagues on serfdom in the Baltics'. in person/hybrid www.history.ac.uk/events/conta...
Patrick Wallis
@patrickwallis.bsky.social
· Mar 10
nuffield.ox.ac.uk
This week at Oxford Econ Soc History Meredith Paker
will give a paper nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/... about how we’re using machine learning to predict seven centuries of wages better than a regression ever could ! Hope to see you there
will give a paper nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/... about how we’re using machine learning to predict seven centuries of wages better than a regression ever could ! Hope to see you there
Patrick Wallis
@patrickwallis.bsky.social
· Mar 10
Land inequality in Ottoman Crete at the turn of the eighteenth century
www.history.ac.uk
Join us online at the IHR on Tuesday to hear the tremendous Pinar Ceylan talk about Land inequality in Ottoman Crete at the turn of the eighteenth century. Ottoman economic history = proper treat! register www.history.ac.uk/events/land-...
Patrick Wallis
@patrickwallis.bsky.social
· Feb 24
GDP per capita and Regional Differences in the Ottoman Empire, 1570-1914
www.history.ac.uk
Join us tomorrow at the the IHR for the glorious Sevket Pamuk on GDP per capita and Regional Differences in the Ottoman Empire, 1570-1914 www.history.ac.uk/events/gdp-c...
“Women in Late Medieval Private Credit: Mechanisms Driving Social and Economic Change in Central Europe
www.history.ac.uk
Interested in women in the late medieval economy? Join us on Tuesday 11th at the IHR (online only) for Anna Molnar (KCL) on credit and change.
www.history.ac.uk/events/women...
www.history.ac.uk/events/women...
Patrick Wallis
@patrickwallis.bsky.social
· Jan 24
Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800
www.history.ac.uk
Join the Economic & Social History of Premodern World seminar at the IHR on Tuesday (28/1) for Regina Grafe (Cambridge) on "Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800" #econhist #twitterstorians in person or online www.history.ac.uk/events/archa...
Bigamy in an Era of Clandestine Marriages
www.history.ac.uk
Bigamy and clandestine marriage in 18th century England - Rebecca Probert at the IHR this Tuesday (10th) econ hist seminar www.history.ac.uk/events/bigam... in person or online... #econhist #history
Excited and proud to have been elected as the next president of the economic history society. It’s a wonderful community to be part of.
Patrick Wallis
@patrickwallis.bsky.social
· Nov 25
Trans-Imperial Trade and Networked Capital in Britain’s Economic Development, 1660-1800
www.history.ac.uk
IHR economic history - We have the lovely Edmond Smith (Manchester) talking about Trans-Imperial Trade and Networked Capital in Britain’s Economic Development, 1660-1800 tomorrow (26 Nov). Online only I'm afraid. register www.history.ac.uk/events/trans... #econhist #history
Patrick Wallis
@patrickwallis.bsky.social
· Nov 23
Always good to start here with a good thing by good people
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ykastis.bsky.social
@ykastis.bsky.social
· Nov 22
Excited to share my #JMP 🧵
❓How important is organizing production efficiently for the adoption of new technologies?
✅ JMP shows organizational practices are instrumental for the integration of new technologies in production.
#econtwitter #EconJobMarket
❓How important is organizing production efficiently for the adoption of new technologies?
✅ JMP shows organizational practices are instrumental for the integration of new technologies in production.
#econtwitter #EconJobMarket