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The Economic History Society of Southern Africa (EHSSA) was formed in July 1980 to promote the study of, and interest in economic and social history of southern Africa.
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🚨🚀The 3rd issue of 2025 is now available online!
#EconHist #Development #EconomicHistory
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rehd20/4...
#EconHist #Development #EconomicHistory
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Economic History of Developing Regions
Volume 40, Issue 3 of Economic History of Developing Regions
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November 10, 2025 at 11:15 AM
🚨🚀The 3rd issue of 2025 is now available online!
#EconHist #Development #EconomicHistory
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rehd20/4...
#EconHist #Development #EconomicHistory
www.tandfonline.com/toc/rehd20/4...
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CfP: What Can History Teach Us About Building Resilient Economies in the 21st Century?
Deadline: 27 November 2025
Conference: 29 - 30 January 2026, Stellenbosch, South Africa
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#EconHist
Deadline: 27 November 2025
Conference: 29 - 30 January 2026, Stellenbosch, South Africa
econrsa.org/events/what-...
#EconHist
What Can History Teach Us About Building Resilient Economies in the 21st Century? | Economic Research Southern Africa
Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA), in collaboration with the Economic History Society of South Africa (EHSSA), is pleased to announce a two-day confe ...
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November 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
CfP: What Can History Teach Us About Building Resilient Economies in the 21st Century?
Deadline: 27 November 2025
Conference: 29 - 30 January 2026, Stellenbosch, South Africa
econrsa.org/events/what-...
#EconHist
Deadline: 27 November 2025
Conference: 29 - 30 January 2026, Stellenbosch, South Africa
econrsa.org/events/what-...
#EconHist
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Curious about using census microdata in your research? 📊
Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data.
🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom
Register: forms.gle/oqTDNU4Zpn2s...
Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.
Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data.
🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom
Register: forms.gle/oqTDNU4Zpn2s...
Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.
Register for IPUMs International Online Session
Please use this form to register for the IPUMs International Session hosted by the Historical Economic Demography Group at LSE.
The session will be on Zoom from 15:15-16:30 UK Time on 12 November 202...
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November 5, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Curious about using census microdata in your research? 📊
Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data.
🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom
Register: forms.gle/oqTDNU4Zpn2s...
Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.
Join us for a webinar on IPUMS International, the world’s leading repository of harmonized census data.
🗓️ 12 Nov 2025 | 🕒 15:15–16:30 UK | 💻 Zoom
Register: forms.gle/oqTDNU4Zpn2s...
Hosted by the LSE Historical Economic Demography Group.
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🚨 Call for Papers 🚨
The Association of Historians and Archaeologists of Togo invites submissions for its upcoming conference on Colonialism, Resistance, and Legacy, to be held at the University of Lomé from 21 to 23 April 2026. Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2025.
The Association of Historians and Archaeologists of Togo invites submissions for its upcoming conference on Colonialism, Resistance, and Legacy, to be held at the University of Lomé from 21 to 23 April 2026. Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2025.
November 5, 2025 at 11:05 PM
🚨 Call for Papers 🚨
The Association of Historians and Archaeologists of Togo invites submissions for its upcoming conference on Colonialism, Resistance, and Legacy, to be held at the University of Lomé from 21 to 23 April 2026. Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2025.
The Association of Historians and Archaeologists of Togo invites submissions for its upcoming conference on Colonialism, Resistance, and Legacy, to be held at the University of Lomé from 21 to 23 April 2026. Deadline for abstracts: 31 December 2025.
CfP: What Can History Teach Us About Building Resilient Economies in the 21st Century?
Deadline: 27 November 2025
Conference: 29 - 30 January 2026, Stellenbosch, South Africa
econrsa.org/events/what-...
#EconHist
Deadline: 27 November 2025
Conference: 29 - 30 January 2026, Stellenbosch, South Africa
econrsa.org/events/what-...
#EconHist
What Can History Teach Us About Building Resilient Economies in the 21st Century? | Economic Research Southern Africa
Economic Research Southern Africa (ERSA), in collaboration with the Economic History Society of South Africa (EHSSA), is pleased to announce a two-day confe ...
econrsa.org
November 3, 2025 at 6:56 PM
CfP: What Can History Teach Us About Building Resilient Economies in the 21st Century?
Deadline: 27 November 2025
Conference: 29 - 30 January 2026, Stellenbosch, South Africa
econrsa.org/events/what-...
#EconHist
Deadline: 27 November 2025
Conference: 29 - 30 January 2026, Stellenbosch, South Africa
econrsa.org/events/what-...
#EconHist
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🚨🚨New article available online! 🚨🚨
"The impact of the 1901 Land Title Deed Act on Bangkok’s urban land market"
by Jessica Vechbanyongratana
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
"The impact of the 1901 Land Title Deed Act on Bangkok’s urban land market"
by Jessica Vechbanyongratana
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The impact of the 1901 Land Title Deed Act on Bangkok’s urban land market
In a bid to maintain sovereignty, Siam strategically adopted the Torrens system of land administration in 1901, effectively converting traditional secure usufruct rights to fully transferable priva...
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October 9, 2025 at 11:53 AM
🚨🚨New article available online! 🚨🚨
"The impact of the 1901 Land Title Deed Act on Bangkok’s urban land market"
by Jessica Vechbanyongratana
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
"The impact of the 1901 Land Title Deed Act on Bangkok’s urban land market"
by Jessica Vechbanyongratana
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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🚨🚨New article available online! 🚨🚨
"The history that moves us: Colonial duration, era of occupation, and migration"
by Edward Kosack & Kristina Sargent
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
"The history that moves us: Colonial duration, era of occupation, and migration"
by Edward Kosack & Kristina Sargent
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
The history that moves us: Colonial duration, era of occupation, and migration
Colonialism has important effects for former colonies, and despite the long colonial history between Europe and Africa, the nuances of the impacts of that history are relatively understudied. The c...
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October 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
🚨🚨New article available online! 🚨🚨
"The history that moves us: Colonial duration, era of occupation, and migration"
by Edward Kosack & Kristina Sargent
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
"The history that moves us: Colonial duration, era of occupation, and migration"
by Edward Kosack & Kristina Sargent
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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A detailed historic map of gold mines along South Africa's Rand has been digitised and made publicly available by l'Université Bordeaux Montaigne:
1886.u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr/s/1886/item/...
1886.u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr/s/1886/item/...
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September 30, 2025 at 10:04 AM
A detailed historic map of gold mines along South Africa's Rand has been digitised and made publicly available by l'Université Bordeaux Montaigne:
1886.u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr/s/1886/item/...
1886.u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr/s/1886/item/...
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I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Historical Journal Call for Special Issues
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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September 22, 2025 at 7:34 AM
I'm very pleased to announce that the call for proposed Special Issues of the Historical Journal is now live, with a deadline of 12th December. Please do spread widely among your networks — @saracaputo.bsky.social and I look forward to reading your submissions! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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▶️▶️The 2nd issue of 2025 is now online, a special issue focusing on New Voices in Nigerian Economic History!
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www.tandfonline.com/toc/rehd20/4...
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Economic History of Developing Regions
New Voices on Nigerian Economic History. Volume 40, Issue 2 of Economic History of Developing Regions
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August 12, 2025 at 3:14 PM
▶️▶️The 2nd issue of 2025 is now online, a special issue focusing on New Voices in Nigerian Economic History!
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www.tandfonline.com/toc/rehd20/4...
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EHDR journal is seeking applications for the position of Editor or Assistant Editor.
Submit your application to kateekama@sun.ac.za by 31 May 2025.
Submit your application to kateekama@sun.ac.za by 31 May 2025.
April 22, 2025 at 9:21 AM
EHDR journal is seeking applications for the position of Editor or Assistant Editor.
Submit your application to kateekama@sun.ac.za by 31 May 2025.
Submit your application to kateekama@sun.ac.za by 31 May 2025.
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🛑📷New article available online!
"Education and land inequality: Evidence on Colombia land tenure and human capital formation"
by Germán Tabares-Pozos, Irina España-Eljaiek, & Juan Carlos Muñoz-Mora
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
"Education and land inequality: Evidence on Colombia land tenure and human capital formation"
by Germán Tabares-Pozos, Irina España-Eljaiek, & Juan Carlos Muñoz-Mora
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Education and land inequality: Evidence on Colombia land tenure and human capital formation
This article provides new evidence for the effects of land inequality on human capital formation using the case of Colombia in the first half of the twentieth century. The paper studies this causal...
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March 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
🛑📷New article available online!
"Education and land inequality: Evidence on Colombia land tenure and human capital formation"
by Germán Tabares-Pozos, Irina España-Eljaiek, & Juan Carlos Muñoz-Mora
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
"Education and land inequality: Evidence on Colombia land tenure and human capital formation"
by Germán Tabares-Pozos, Irina España-Eljaiek, & Juan Carlos Muñoz-Mora
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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🛑📷New article available online!
"Unification of education, ethnic diversity, and literacy in the early Turkish Republic"
by Alpay Filiztekin
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
"Unification of education, ethnic diversity, and literacy in the early Turkish Republic"
by Alpay Filiztekin
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Unification of education, ethnic diversity, and literacy in the early Turkish Republic
This paper examines the impact of language and education policies on human capital accumulation during the nation-building process in the early Turkish Republic and tests whether ethnic composition...
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February 23, 2025 at 11:23 PM
🛑📷New article available online!
"Unification of education, ethnic diversity, and literacy in the early Turkish Republic"
by Alpay Filiztekin
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
"Unification of education, ethnic diversity, and literacy in the early Turkish Republic"
by Alpay Filiztekin
www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...
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📢 This week, @cephie.bsky.social launches a new episode of their podcast, featuring @ronanlyons.bsky.social, @barratree.bsky.social, @gaianarciso.bsky.social & @profjohnturner.bsky.social. They discuss what happened in 2024 & what to expect in 2025. 🗣️
🎧 Listen here: tinyurl.com/yc52d5am
#econsky
🎧 Listen here: tinyurl.com/yc52d5am
#econsky
January 17, 2025 at 8:35 AM
📢 This week, @cephie.bsky.social launches a new episode of their podcast, featuring @ronanlyons.bsky.social, @barratree.bsky.social, @gaianarciso.bsky.social & @profjohnturner.bsky.social. They discuss what happened in 2024 & what to expect in 2025. 🗣️
🎧 Listen here: tinyurl.com/yc52d5am
#econsky
🎧 Listen here: tinyurl.com/yc52d5am
#econsky
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What is new in the second edition of Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom?
Second to none
The second edition of Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom is now available in South Africa
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January 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM
What is new in the second edition of Our Long Walk to Economic Freedom?
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Please consider applying to a pre-doc position at UCSD. Projects at the intersection of development and culture in Africa with Eduardo Montero Nathan Nunn James Robinson & others. Possible fieldwork in DRC. French skills preferred. Thank you! employment.ucsd.edu/research-ass...
Research Assistant - 133553
Apply for Research Assistant - 133553 position at UC San Diego in Remote, National on https://employment.ucsd.edu/
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December 10, 2024 at 8:37 PM
Please consider applying to a pre-doc position at UCSD. Projects at the intersection of development and culture in Africa with Eduardo Montero Nathan Nunn James Robinson & others. Possible fieldwork in DRC. French skills preferred. Thank you! employment.ucsd.edu/research-ass...
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Until 1963, Companhia de Diamantes de Angola relied on forced labour in its diamond mines, making it arguably the last major employer in colonial Africa to uphold such practices. My IHR blog examines the economic forces that sustained this system and what finally brought about its end. #Angola
What drives the transformation of oppressive institutions, and how does this affect economic development amongst those working under European colonial rule in Africa? Read @leodolan.bsky.social's post on The Great Spurt: ihrthegreatspurt.wordpress.com/2024/12/03/w...
What drives the transformation of oppressive institutions, and how does this affect economic development amongst those working under European colonial rule in Africa?
My latest research tackles these questions through the case of the Companhia de Diamantes de Angola (Diamang), one of the largest colonial enterprises to exist in Portuguese Africa. By exploring ho…
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December 4, 2024 at 3:03 PM
Until 1963, Companhia de Diamantes de Angola relied on forced labour in its diamond mines, making it arguably the last major employer in colonial Africa to uphold such practices. My IHR blog examines the economic forces that sustained this system and what finally brought about its end. #Angola
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And it's off to the printers!
A fully revised second edition, available in South Africa (and on Kindle) in January 2025!
A fully revised second edition, available in South Africa (and on Kindle) in January 2025!
December 3, 2024 at 5:21 PM
And it's off to the printers!
A fully revised second edition, available in South Africa (and on Kindle) in January 2025!
A fully revised second edition, available in South Africa (and on Kindle) in January 2025!
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This is finally out! Our paper on a new dataset of average years of schooling in Brazil, 1925-2015 is available at Economic History of Developing Regions. Again we thank the editorial leadership of Alfonso Herranz, whose advices and conduction really improved the paper: doi.org/10.1080/2078...
November 28, 2024 at 12:20 AM
This is finally out! Our paper on a new dataset of average years of schooling in Brazil, 1925-2015 is available at Economic History of Developing Regions. Again we thank the editorial leadership of Alfonso Herranz, whose advices and conduction really improved the paper: doi.org/10.1080/2078...