Oxford Economic & Social History

Congratulations Ying Dai for winning the dissertation prize in World Economic History Congress 2025 in Lund for her DPhil research “the Occupational Structure of the Yangtze Valley in the Twentieth Century”! #econhistory #history

Last week we have Christopher Sims and Matteo Ruzzante @tgsatnu.bsky.social discussing their project on the introduction and diffusion of guano as a nitrogenous fertilizer in 19c England #econhist #history

Last week our own Yifei Liu presented his very exciting project on the multi-structural break analysis of China’s regional development from 1949 to 2022 #history #econhist

This week we have Jens Oehlen from Stockholm University sharing his super interesting project on the impact of the Allied breaking of the Nazi Enigma, providing the first data-driven analysis of WWII intelligence #econhist #history

From the Sand Up: An Environmental and Demographic Explanation of the Economic, Legal and Political Structure of Arabia
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@oxford-esh.bsky.social working paper by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow Robert C. Allen

A pleasure to talk about serfdom and my Leverhulme project yesterday at the Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development. @oxford-esh.bsky.social @arthurlewislab.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk #echist

Alyssa Rusonik @hecparis.bsky.social who’s now visiting
@nuffieldcollege.bsky.social led this week’s seminar discussing her project “institutional commitment and economic revival: evidence from palace-building in renaissance Rome”

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This week, Monique Rieske @humboldtuni.bsky.social kicks off our Wednesday seminar series this term with her project on the effects of the Nazis’s violent Fight for Berlin in attracting support and quelling opposition #econhist #history

Congratulations to Jem Ruf and Yunyufei Luo @yunyufeiluo.bsky.social
for winning this year’s Thirsk Prize for best MSc and MPhil dissertation!

What does history tell us about trade barriers to favour domestic interest-groups? On guilds and trade in medieval Europe, check out this BBC series, broadcast again this week. @BBCRadio4 @OxfordESH @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social #echist www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Congratulations to our DPhil student Louis Henderson, now a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow @lseechist.bsky.social
who’s awarded this year’s Thirsk-Feinstein Dissertation Prize in the Economic History Society annual conference 2025 in Glasgow #econhist

My contribution to the AEHN open access textbook on African economic history is out! Africa’s Lost Decades, 1974-1994 www.aehnetwork.org/textbook/afr...

Wonderful audience today for “Controlling Contagion” at the Oxford Literary Festival @PrincetonUPress @oxford-esh.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social

Conference presentation

Great conference on cross-border payments at St Hilda’s College, Oxford! Thank you for two days of engaging presentations and a fantastic keynote by Linda Goldberg (FRB New York) on global liquidity flows @oxford-esh.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social
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Departmental Lecturer in Economic and Social History

We are also inviting applications for a 2-year full-time Departmental Lecturer in Economic and Social History at @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social Applications should be submitted online and before noon Wednesday 23 April - details below! #econhist #history

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We are inviting applications for Associate Professorship in Economic and Social History, Faculty of History and All Souls College, Oxford. Deadline for applications is 23 April 2025 - see the link below for more job and application info!

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Check out the new book by our own @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social
who gives a wide-ranging and compelling account of human experience in epidemic control from the Black Death to Covid, looked at from a specific angle: institutions, critically #econhist #history

Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid | Oxford Literary Festival Sheilagh Ogilvie - Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid

“Leave fast. Go far away. Come back slowly.” Was “Cito, Longe, Tarde” the only way of controlling contagion? A few answers at the Oxford Literary Festival on 3 April @princetonupress.bsky.social oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...

Do Economic Warfare and Sanctions Work? Three Centuries of E We draw lessons from three centuries of economic warfare and sanctions. Establishing cause and effect is difficult because much else was typically changing during periods of conflict. Unintended conse

Do Economic Warfare and Sanctions Work? Three Centuries of Evidence
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@warwickecon.bsky.social research paper by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow Stephen Broadberry and Mark Harrison #EconSky #NuffSky

Controlling Contagion How human institutions—markets, states, communities, religions, guilds and families—have helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics throughout history.

Happy to say my new book, “Controlling Contagion”, comes out next month. 700 years of tackling pandemics. Not all bad news…

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Black middle class wealth in South Africa and Kenya Those coming from Black middle class backgrounds in South Africa and Kenya were prevented from owning many types of assets under colonial rule and Apartheid. How have these groups come to share in …

How have Black middle class South Africans and Kenyans come to share in the wealth stock of their nations since colonial rule and Apartheid? @rebeccasimson.bsky.social explores in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

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