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Historical Economics, Economic History and everything in between. European Review of Economic History. Repost does not imply publication offer. Posts by Benjamin Chatterton.
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The European Historical Economics Society @theehes.bsky.social · Mar 5
We're catching up on blog posts for our latest publications. There will be a few every couple of days untill we're caught back up. The X account is also going inactive as we build back up here.
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A new article and blog post

"Historical Monetary Strategies: Achieving Long-Term Price Stability in Medieval Sweden"

By R. Edvinsson and R. Svensson
November 10, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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A new article and blog post:

"Inequality in Child Mortality Persists Between Generations in the Netherlands, 1835–1919"

From Ingrid van Dijk (@ingridvandijk.bsky.social)
November 6, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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New article and blog post now available:

Women’s Union Awakening: Early Impacts on Gender Wage Gaps (Yecla, Spain, 1895-1935)

P Beneito, J J García-Gómez & A Martínez-Soto show unions raised men’s wages—but not women’s, widening the gap. Early unions were ineffective advocates for female workers.
October 17, 2025 at 1:29 PM
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A new article and blog post!

"Procuring Promising Provisions: the British Patent System and the Navy Proviso, 1794–1831"

By Stephen Billington (@steve-bill-econ.bsky.social) and Joe Lane

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Procuring Promising Provisions: the British Patent System and the Navy Proviso, 1794–1831
Abstract. In 1794, the British State intervened in the patent system by introducing the Navy proviso, a legal proviso targeted at select patents compelling
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October 2, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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marrv.bsky.social
Thrilled to announce that I've been elected as a Trustee of the European Historical Economics Society (@theehes.bsky.social)! 🎉

Grateful for this opportunity to serve our scholarly community.

#HistoricalEconomics #EHES #AcademicService
September 9, 2025 at 7:58 AM
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New paper and blog post!

"The Edwardian Property Slump: An Historical Analysis (1895-1914)"

By A. M. Samy

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Measuring the Edwardian Property Slump: House Prices and Rents in Residential London, 1895–1914
Abstract. The Edwardian property slump was a major housing downturn that affected London before the First World War; however, existing house price indices
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September 8, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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cedricchambru.bsky.social
This workshop is co-organised by
@pmaneuvre.bsky.social, @victorgayeco.bsky.social, @jeanlacroix.bsky.social, @thomasbaudin.bsky.social, @mariebgl.bsky.social‬.

Members of #econhist, @echistsoc.bsky.social, @theehes.bsky.social — please circulate! Many of you may be interested 🙌
August 26, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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echistsoc.bsky.social
Now on Early View:
'The disappearance of malaria from Denmark, 1862–1900'.
By Mathias Mølbak Ingholt, Maarten van Wijhe, Lone Simonsen & Daniel Weinberger.
@camunicampop.bsky.social @roskildeuni.bsky.social ‪@yaleemd.bsky.social‬
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The reason for malaria's disappearance from northwestern Europe in the early twentieth century has long been discussed but remains an unresolved conundrum. This is partially due to a previous focus o...
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June 26, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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At long last, my full book manuscript is off to the publisher for the final time. 18 months of 5am wake-ups have resulted in 110,000 words about Americans long, contentious struggle to come to terms with George Washington and slavery. Forthcoming from @uncpress.bsky.social in 2026!
June 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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nicolekapelle.bsky.social
🚨PhD in Quantitative Sociology @tcdsociology.bsky.social
Join me for a project on “The Economics of Late-Life Divorce”
📌 €25,000/year + fees
📌 Strong quant skills & soc background needed
📌 Deadline: July 21, 2025

👉 www.tcd.ie/sociology/ab...

#PhD #Sociology #Demography #QuantMethods #AcademicJobs
June 25, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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⏰ Deadline Approaching – Gino Luzzatto Dissertation Award ⏰
The European Historical Economics Society invites submissions for the Gino Luzzatto Dissertation Award for outstanding doctoral work in economic history.
🗓 Deadline: 30 June 2025
June 26, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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New paper and blog post:

"The Land of Opportunity? Social Class, Returns to Migration, and Occupational Mobility of Swedish Immigrants, 1880–1910"

By M. Castillo

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The Land of Opportunity? Social Class, Returns to Migration, and Occupational Mobility of Swedish Immigrants, 1880–1910
Abstract. I study the economic returns to migration among Swedish immigrants in the United States in 1900 and 1910, by social class. Using linked data from
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June 5, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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kris-inwood.bsky.social
July 1 is the deadline for submissions to the SJ Butlin Prize ($1000) for the best PhD or Masters thesis on Australian or New Zealand economic history accepted from 1 July 2022 to 30 June 2025. Enquiries to the selection committee chair at martin.shanahan@unisa.edu.au
📉📈🗃📗🍎 #history #AcademicSky
Awards/Prizes
S. J. Butlin Prize The S.J. Butlin Prize is awarded for the best PhD or Masters thesis in Australian and New Zealand economic history.
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June 5, 2025 at 2:09 PM
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sthetland.bsky.social
We're looking for candidates to apply for a three-year postdoc!

@marrv.bsky.social @tamboduc.bsky.social @upna.bsky.social

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Postdoctoral Researcher Support for Ramón Areces Grant Proposal
The Economic History Unit at the Department of Economics, Public University of Navarre (UPNA), is excited to offer support to a postdoctoral researcher in preparing a grant proposal for the Fundación ...
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May 26, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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srwride.bsky.social
#Skystorians! Join me & the @historylabplus.bsky.social‬ team online on 19 June @12:30 to explore how historical researchers (across all periods) can make themselves more visible to UK policy makers. For details👉 www.history.ac.uk/events/historical-research-and-policy-making & 🧵
Historical Research and Policy Making
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May 23, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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New blog post!

Why did wages remain stagnant in Ottoman state textile factories during the second half of the nineteenth century? Tamer Güven (@tmrguven.bsky.social) constructs a new wage series for Ottoman state textile factories using unexplored archival records from the Ottoman Archives.
May 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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New article by Èric Gómez-i-Aznar:

📜🧮 Numeracy in 18th-Century Catalonia: A Key to Understanding the Role of Human Capital in Early Industrialisation?

Published in EHES, exploring arithmetic capacity as an indicator of human capital before the Industrial Revolution. 👇 #EconomicHistory #Catalonia
May 12, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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📢 New paper alert! "The determinants of the skill premium in late medieval and early modern Europe, 1400-1800" by @BrioschiA (@QUBelfast and @ceph_ie) & Mattia Fochesato (@Unibocconi and @DondenaCentre) is now available for early view. Findings below! 🧵⬇️ #EconHistory #SkillPremium
May 12, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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tmrguven.bsky.social
I am happy to announce that my paper has been published as an advance article in the European Review of Economic History. @theehes.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ereh/advance...
Stagnant Wages in the Ottoman State Textile Factories in the Nineteenth Century: Comparison with European Wages
Abstract. This study presents a new wage series for the textile factories established by the Ottoman state between 1848 and 1900. The data reveal that the
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May 9, 2025 at 5:47 AM
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Any great PhD or postdoctoral researchers out there who fulfil the attached criteria and who are interested in:

1) Formal logical models of electoral systems
2) Multilevel regression + poststratification
3) Digitising comparative elections data

Please let me know! I want to get you to Manchester!
Candidates should not have carried out their main activity (work, studies etc.) in the country of their host organisation (i.e. UK) for more than 12 months in the 3 years immediately before the deadline. This call is open to researchers either coming to or moving within Europe, depending on the two strands of the scheme (European Postdoctoral Fellowships and Global Postdoctoral Fellowships). Researchers should be in possession of a doctoral degree, with a maximum of 8 years full-time equivalent research experience.
April 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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New blog post and upcoming article:

"The political economy of skills, occupational entitlements, and social mobility: evidence from industrialising Coventry, 1790-1850"

By Henderson, L. and Kaiser, M.

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European Historical Economics Society | The political economy of skills, occupational entitlements, and social mobility: evidence from industrialising Coventry, 1790-1850
European Historical Economics Society Conference. All information about the upcoming EHES Conference
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April 15, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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New advanced article:

The Effects of Italy’s Unification on Its Dual Development: A Synthetic Control Approach

By G. Barone, D. Chilosi, C. Ciccarelli (@carciccar.bsky.social) and G. de Blasio.

doi.org/10.1093/ereh...
The Effects of Italy’s Unification on Its Dual Development: A Synthetic Control Approach
Abstract. There is a long-standing debate on the effect of Italian unification (1861) on the country’s dual development. We estimate the causal impact of u
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March 25, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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danjdevine.bsky.social
There's a golden job to join us as a research fellow with @rikkidean.bsky.social on democratic process preferences in Europe, funded by the ERC

✅ 3 years
📊 Mixed methods
💰 Resources for data & conferences
👥 Good group of people working on similar things

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMI418/r...
Research Fellow in Political Process Preferences in Europe (PoPPiE) at University of Southampton
Looking for a new job opportunity in academia? Check out this job opening for a Research Fellow in Political Process Preferences in Europe (PoPPiE) on jobs.ac.uk!
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March 18, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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nealemahoney.bsky.social
Healthcare jobs have grown 2x faster than the overall labor market since 1980

Healthcare overtook retail to become largest industry by employment in 2009

New working paper w/ @gottliebecon.bsky.social, @kevinrinz.bsky.social and @victoriaudalova.bsky.social on the rise of healthcare jobs
March 17, 2025 at 10:23 AM