Hillary Vipond
@hillaryvipond.bsky.social
Economic History, LSE ||
Technological Unemployment in Victorian Britain || Postdoc @CSH Vienna. Senior @atlanticfellows
Technological Unemployment in Victorian Britain || Postdoc @CSH Vienna. Senior @atlanticfellows
I do love flying in to Boston, it's like a city of sails on the water. Weekend is all prep for NBER SI, reading econ history paper, good times.
July 5, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I do love flying in to Boston, it's like a city of sails on the water. Weekend is all prep for NBER SI, reading econ history paper, good times.
June 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
And today a swan's nest, right on the banks of the river
May 29, 2025 at 6:38 PM
And today a swan's nest, right on the banks of the river
Vienna. Wildflowers on the walk to the train
May 24, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Vienna. Wildflowers on the walk to the train
Does Harvard build a couple of spin offs now?
May 22, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Does Harvard build a couple of spin offs now?
98 million pairs of shoes produced in Britain in 1907
May 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
98 million pairs of shoes produced in Britain in 1907
Sometimes I feel like documenting the most quotidian moments of life in Western Europe. This whole terrain will be foreign to peoples of the future, as I am reminded every time I read biographies of workers in 19th c England
May 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Sometimes I feel like documenting the most quotidian moments of life in Western Europe. This whole terrain will be foreign to peoples of the future, as I am reminded every time I read biographies of workers in 19th c England
Industrial Revolution probably improved living standards more than any other revolution before or since.
It'd be neat to quantify this, and without overlooking the many people who were harmed in the churn
It'd be neat to quantify this, and without overlooking the many people who were harmed in the churn
May 20, 2025 at 6:24 AM
Industrial Revolution probably improved living standards more than any other revolution before or since.
It'd be neat to quantify this, and without overlooking the many people who were harmed in the churn
It'd be neat to quantify this, and without overlooking the many people who were harmed in the churn
Have come to terms with the fact that I don't really understand or remember much until I write it out & work through it.
So I'm going to blog. Primarily for myself. Would love it to be a little useful for others. Many thanks to @johanfourieza.bsky.social, whose conference on this was inspiring
So I'm going to blog. Primarily for myself. Would love it to be a little useful for others. Many thanks to @johanfourieza.bsky.social, whose conference on this was inspiring
May 19, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Have come to terms with the fact that I don't really understand or remember much until I write it out & work through it.
So I'm going to blog. Primarily for myself. Would love it to be a little useful for others. Many thanks to @johanfourieza.bsky.social, whose conference on this was inspiring
So I'm going to blog. Primarily for myself. Would love it to be a little useful for others. Many thanks to @johanfourieza.bsky.social, whose conference on this was inspiring
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The 12th Australasian Cliometrics Workshop will be held 14 Nov 2025 at Monash Uni, Melbourne.
Proposals accepted thru 14 July, full papers due 31st Oct.
More info: Quoc-Anh Do (quoc-anh.do@monash.edu) & Laura Panza (lpanza@unimelb.edu.au)
ECR & grad students particularly encouraged
📉📈🗃📗 #AcademicSky
Proposals accepted thru 14 July, full papers due 31st Oct.
More info: Quoc-Anh Do (quoc-anh.do@monash.edu) & Laura Panza (lpanza@unimelb.edu.au)
ECR & grad students particularly encouraged
📉📈🗃📗 #AcademicSky
May 18, 2025 at 5:55 PM
The 12th Australasian Cliometrics Workshop will be held 14 Nov 2025 at Monash Uni, Melbourne.
Proposals accepted thru 14 July, full papers due 31st Oct.
More info: Quoc-Anh Do (quoc-anh.do@monash.edu) & Laura Panza (lpanza@unimelb.edu.au)
ECR & grad students particularly encouraged
📉📈🗃📗 #AcademicSky
Proposals accepted thru 14 July, full papers due 31st Oct.
More info: Quoc-Anh Do (quoc-anh.do@monash.edu) & Laura Panza (lpanza@unimelb.edu.au)
ECR & grad students particularly encouraged
📉📈🗃📗 #AcademicSky
Vienna at sundown
May 16, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Vienna at sundown
Thousands of books have just arrived at CSH and I can't help myself, I've nabbed a few just for the cover art and title. Any Booth map will do for me I guess #econhistory
May 15, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Thousands of books have just arrived at CSH and I can't help myself, I've nabbed a few just for the cover art and title. Any Booth map will do for me I guess #econhistory
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📜 NEW WORKING PAPER 📜
What was the true case fatality rate (CFR) of smallpox?
My new paper with Romola Davenport (Cambridge) revisits this question using 18th-century data from Sweden and Iceland—and challenges the long-held belief that smallpox CFRs were 20–30%.
🧵👇
1/6
What was the true case fatality rate (CFR) of smallpox?
My new paper with Romola Davenport (Cambridge) revisits this question using 18th-century data from Sweden and Iceland—and challenges the long-held belief that smallpox CFRs were 20–30%.
🧵👇
1/6
May 13, 2025 at 7:25 PM
📜 NEW WORKING PAPER 📜
What was the true case fatality rate (CFR) of smallpox?
My new paper with Romola Davenport (Cambridge) revisits this question using 18th-century data from Sweden and Iceland—and challenges the long-held belief that smallpox CFRs were 20–30%.
🧵👇
1/6
What was the true case fatality rate (CFR) of smallpox?
My new paper with Romola Davenport (Cambridge) revisits this question using 18th-century data from Sweden and Iceland—and challenges the long-held belief that smallpox CFRs were 20–30%.
🧵👇
1/6
Good discussion taking place on whether researchers should be responsible for sharing their findings, or whether it should be someone else. Specialization etc.
Someone said "the researcher might not be the one who shares the story, but they should know why it matters"
Someone said "the researcher might not be the one who shares the story, but they should know why it matters"
May 9, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Good discussion taking place on whether researchers should be responsible for sharing their findings, or whether it should be someone else. Specialization etc.
Someone said "the researcher might not be the one who shares the story, but they should know why it matters"
Someone said "the researcher might not be the one who shares the story, but they should know why it matters"
Do we have a 4th Industrial Revolution Pope?!
May 8, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Do we have a 4th Industrial Revolution Pope?!
@delong.social sharing thoughts on the use and abuse of economic history
May 8, 2025 at 7:33 AM
@delong.social sharing thoughts on the use and abuse of economic history
Really delighted to have arrived in Stellenbosch for this workshop on disseminating Economic History. Organized by @johanfourieza.bsky.social with keynote from @delong.social
May 5, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Really delighted to have arrived in Stellenbosch for this workshop on disseminating Economic History. Organized by @johanfourieza.bsky.social with keynote from @delong.social
Tawney Lecture at EHS
Guido Alfani: Economic inequality in preindustrial societies
Guido Alfani: Economic inequality in preindustrial societies
April 6, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Tawney Lecture at EHS
Guido Alfani: Economic inequality in preindustrial societies
Guido Alfani: Economic inequality in preindustrial societies
Man I love a railroad graph
In this case it's part of a fascinating and bleak story of indigeneous dispossession. I'll post the paper if it's ok with the authors.
In this case it's part of a fascinating and bleak story of indigeneous dispossession. I'll post the paper if it's ok with the authors.
April 5, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Man I love a railroad graph
In this case it's part of a fascinating and bleak story of indigeneous dispossession. I'll post the paper if it's ok with the authors.
In this case it's part of a fascinating and bleak story of indigeneous dispossession. I'll post the paper if it's ok with the authors.
I'm going to have to write an entire paper showing how bad false positives in Linking actually are. People are surprisingly dubious about this.
April 5, 2025 at 10:25 AM
I'm going to have to write an entire paper showing how bad false positives in Linking actually are. People are surprisingly dubious about this.
The absolutely stunning sunset in Vienna as I leave to Dublin & the EHS in Glasgow. My team at CSH is superb, and I always regret leaving. Excited to meet people in Dublin & then go on home to economic history.
I better have some useful findings one day, I have been given much
I better have some useful findings one day, I have been given much
April 3, 2025 at 6:07 PM
The absolutely stunning sunset in Vienna as I leave to Dublin & the EHS in Glasgow. My team at CSH is superb, and I always regret leaving. Excited to meet people in Dublin & then go on home to economic history.
I better have some useful findings one day, I have been given much
I better have some useful findings one day, I have been given much
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it's easy to think that academia is outdated, worthless etc but the fact that we are consistently the first targets for repression by dicators and wannabe dictators suggests we are still doing something useful and good for free societies despite our best efforts to fucking suck super bad
March 26, 2025 at 12:41 PM
it's easy to think that academia is outdated, worthless etc but the fact that we are consistently the first targets for repression by dicators and wannabe dictators suggests we are still doing something useful and good for free societies despite our best efforts to fucking suck super bad