Kris Inwood

The vibrant colors of George Morrison (Grand Portage Chippewa), "The Red Sky" (1955), oil on canvas; Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth (© George Morrison Estate, unless otherwise noted)

Landmark exhibition finally honors George Morrison (Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Chippewa), ‘it also introduces the museum-going public to an artist who has long been sequestered because of his ethnicity. The Ojibwe artist was

The making of a nation: Who voted for Australian federation? Between 1898 and 1900, six British colonies held referendums on whether or not to join together as states in a federal Australia. We focus on New South Wales, which was pivotal to the affirmative res...

The spatial pattern of voting at 1500 individual New South Wales polling booths does not support conventional thinking that manufacturing interests favoured the 1901 Australian political union with its promise of tariff protection, according to Alexander and Hatton in the latest Asia-Pacific EcHR!

A lot of Ukrainians (and Poles) in Canada

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Wikipedia says Rzeszów is a transshipment hub for supplies to Ukraine

Globalisation and the development of Chinese cotton industry in early 20th century Following the establishment of the Treaty Port system, trade in imported cotton products—including manufactured cloth, finer yarn, and long-staple cotton—between the west and China began, though it e...

Chinese cotton textile production & consumption changed during the early 20th century with growing demand for finer yarns & direct purchasing of long staple cotton by Japanese companies, according to Masataka Setobayashi in the Asia-Pacific EcHR
📉📈🗃 #history #HistIR #AcademicSky #polisky #sociology

#JobFairy - if you really are looking to get out, get away, the University of the South Pacific is looking for a historian. 5 years in the first instance, looks like mostly remote teaching though?
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Stephen Mullen's excellent book on this topic, The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775–1838 is available to read for free from our website:

uolpress.co.uk/book/the-gla...

#OpenAccess #History #Slavery #Scotland

Whose papers have an edge at Science? In unusual study, journal looks in the mirror Confidential data show being in the U.S., at a prestigious institution, and in a large team all may help

Whose papers have an edge at Science? In unusual study, journal looks in the mirror | Science | AAAS via @jeffreybrainard.bsky.social www.science.org/content/arti...

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Within-family heritability estimates for behavioural and disease phenotypes from 500,000 sibling pairs of diverse ancestries Quantification of the direct effect of genetic variation on human behavioural traits is important for understanding between-individual variation in socio-economic and health outcomes but estimates of ...

Massive sibling regression study finds that human traits are largely environmentally driven (average heritability = 0.3)

School Story Lab

My student-led team, schoolstorylab.com, has just rec'd IRB approval for this yr’s project, an inquiry into READING. (We built on @liznorell.bsky.social's survey.) It will take less than 10 min. & is open to ANY STUDENT in ANY COUNTRY, 18 years or older. Plz share widely!
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I regularly get folks interested in economics or public policy PhDs who are not able to be in-person full-time; where offers good economics (especially development econ.) and policy PhDs that are remote or part-time or only sporadically in person? #EconSky #PoliSky

Weak data nullify bold claims about economic trends in Qing China Recent quantitative studies find steep reductions in Chinese per capita real GDP during 1700–1850, challenging long-standing views of eighteenth-century prosperity. While evidence surrounding likely ...

Did food supply in 18thC China decline dramatically & push down pc income? Tom Rawski questions the strength of existing evidence & recommends an open mind until new sources are investigated. OA in the Asia-Pacific EcHR
📉📈🗃🏺📗 📜 🍎😷 🛟 #history #AcademicSky #demography #polisky #geosky #China #cssky

SSHM AGM & The SSHM Lecture 2025 Monday 6 October [Online]  4:00 – 5:30pm (UK time)  As required, the Society gives notice to members that the Annual General Meeting to formally accept the accounts for 2024 and for…

Did I mention this?

🚨Online today, 6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST. Still time for free registration!🚨

For The SSHM Lecture 2025, Prof. Jeremy Greene will be presenting 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history'

#histmed #histSTM #skystorians 🗃

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Marianne Bertrand explaining the Marianne Bertrand, Professor of Economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business, held a lecture at Stockholm University last week, in front of an audience of around 150 people includin...

”There is a dramatic change when women become mothers while nothing is happening to the fathers. Motherhood penalties around the world account for much of the gender pay gap in advanced economies.”
Professor Marianne Bertrand delivering this year´s Gunnar Myrdal lecture.
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The onset of the British Imperial retreat from China: Evidence from the Chinese sovereign bond market in London This study explores the British Empire's retreat from China through the lens of London investors in Chinese sovereign bonds (1898–1938). Using structural break analysis on weekly spreads between Chin...

Dan Li, Hao Tang & Yajie Wang follow the British Empire's retreat from China in the weekly spread btw Chinese bonds & British Consols 1898-1938. The retreat from gunboat diplomacy is first visible in the financial markets with the launch of the 1926 Northern Expedition. New in the Asia-Pacific EcHR!

This tiny butterfly has the most chromosomes of any animal on Earth Scientists have confirmed that the Atlas blue butterfly carries the most chromosomes of any animal, with 229 pairs. Unlike duplication, its chromosomes split apart, reshaping its genome in surprising ...

Homie got 229 pairs of chromosomes

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Maritime irony! Tim Hatton in his 2025 Butlin lecture argues that the first iron-hulled, screw-driven ocean-going steamer was uniquely successful on the Britain-Australia route as a steam-assisted sailing ship rather than a sail-assisted steamship. Open access in the Asia-Pacific Econ History Rev

As the first female Archbishop of Canterbury is appointed, it’s worth remembering that dissenting women were preaching to mixed sex congregations in London as early as 1645. My book Voices of Thunder has a whole section on 17th-century “she-preachers”

#earlymodern

Why AI needs social science | British Politics and Policy at LSE AI is about humans, that's why it needs to be shaped not just by computer science, but by social science.

AI needs social science. Cosmina Dorobantu and I explain why in a new blog post @lsedatascience.bsky.social @oii.ox.ac.uk blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...

"Full-day kindergarten expansions were responsible for as much as 24 percent of the growth in employment of mothers with kindergartenaged children in this time frame."

The title page from an old book dated 1828

The first English language account of traditional Native stories written by a Native author, by David Cusick, a Tuscarora.

Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured Mākereti Papakura died weeks before handing in her thesis at Oxford university documenting the life and customs of her tribe, work that is still used by Māori today

Nearly 100 years after her death, Oxford’s first female Indigenous scholar honoured www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

This book applies the innovative work-task approach to the history of work, which captures the contribution of all workers and types of work to the early modern economy. Drawing on tens of thousands of court depositions, the authors analyse the individual tasks that made up everyday work for women and men, shedding new light on the gender division of labour, and the ways in which time, space, age and marital status shaped sixteenth and seventeenth-century working life. Combining qualitative and quantitative analysis, the book deepens our understanding of the preindustrial economy, and calls for us to rethink not only who did what, but also the implications of these findings for major debates about structural change, the nature and extent of paid work, and what has been lost as well as gained over the past three centuries of economic development. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Cover of Whittle, Jane, Mark Hailwood, Hannah Robb, and Taylor Aucoin. The Experience of Work in Early Modern England. of Cambridge Studies in Economic History - Second Series. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Who did what in early modern England?

New #OpenAccess book, 'The Experience of Work in Early Modern England' by @jwhittle.bsky.social, @markhailwood.bsky.social, @hkrobb.bsky.social & @aucointaylor.bsky.social, based on thousands of #EarlyModern court depositions 🗃️

Read it: doi.org/10.1017/9781...

FREE #Heiresses event in #Edinburgh TONIGHT!

#histnursing WW2 nurse Mary Helen Young helped prisoners escape Nazi occupied France

When I ask ChatGPT to infer height and weight from historical photos it seems to do it well, and even gives its degree of confidence. Is there a systematic analysis of performance on this task?

Looking forward to teaching this class at @rfberlin.bsky.social ❤️

🚨Deadline for submissions is today!🚨