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@patrickwallis.bsky.social

Professor of Economic History, LSE; Apprenticeship. Health. Pharmacy. Work. Wages. and all kinds of history. Plus a bit of running. New book: market for skill coming out with Princeton in March 2025

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16.05.2025 07:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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East India Company Capital, 1660-1700

How did the East India Company become a proper company? Zane Jennings will present his work on the development of a real market in EIC stocks on Tuesday 20 May at the IHR & hybrid www.history.ac.uk/events/east-...

16.05.2025 06:58 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Image of a mortar board with the text: 'Masters' Scholarships 2025-26: supporting students from groups under-represented in history'

Image of a mortar board with the text: 'Masters' Scholarships 2025-26: supporting students from groups under-represented in history'

Applications now invited for the Society's Masters' Scholarships 2025-26 bit.ly/4bJs8je

Scholarships support history students, from groups currently underrepresented in academic history, to undertake a Masters' degree at a UK university. Closing date for Stage 1 applications: 6 June #Skystorians

01.05.2025 11:06 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 31    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 4
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Ruling and Healing: Managing Health and Empire in Qing China 1644-1912

How did the Qing use medicine to strengthen the empire? Chinese medical and political/economic history... join us at the IHR/online on Tuesday 6 May to hear Yitong Qiu (UCL). register www.history.ac.uk/events/rulin...

02.05.2025 08:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1

Just had a great conversation about apprenticeship, growth and British history and my book Market for Skill with Miranda Melcher on the @NewBooksNetwork newbooksnetwork.com/the-market-f...

05.04.2025 13:16 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
How apprenticeship transformed premodern England | Coffee break research at LSE
YouTube video by LSE How apprenticeship transformed premodern England | Coffee break research at LSE

If you want a short listen on apprenticeship based on my new book, you can see me not looking at the camera here... press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

youtu.be/L4sJnZzbaDU?...

31.03.2025 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Job Details

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Associate Professorship in Economic and Social History, Faculty of History and All Souls College, Oxford. Deadline for applications 23 April 2025. @oxford-esh.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

26.03.2025 16:05 β€” πŸ‘ 25    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 2
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Contagious coercion: The effect of plagues on serfdom in the Baltics

Plague, serfs, coercion? Join us at the IHR on 25 March for Tom Raster (LSE) on 'Contagious coercion: The effect of plagues on serfdom in the Baltics'. in person/hybrid www.history.ac.uk/events/conta...

24.03.2025 07:38 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This week at Oxford Econ Soc History Meredith Paker
will give a paper nuffield.ox.ac.uk/news-events/... about how we’re using machine learning to predict seven centuries of wages better than a regression ever could ! Hope to see you there

10.03.2025 15:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Land inequality in Ottoman Crete at the turn of the eighteenth century

Join us online at the IHR on Tuesday to hear the tremendous Pinar Ceylan talk about Land inequality in Ottoman Crete at the turn of the eighteenth century. Ottoman economic history = proper treat! register www.history.ac.uk/events/land-...

10.03.2025 15:34 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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GDP per capita and Regional Differences in the Ottoman Empire, 1570-1914

Join us tomorrow at the the IHR for the glorious Sevket Pamuk on GDP per capita and Regional Differences in the Ottoman Empire, 1570-1914 www.history.ac.uk/events/gdp-c...

24.02.2025 12:53 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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β€œWomen in Late Medieval Private Credit: Mechanisms Driving Social and Economic Change in Central Europe

Interested in women in the late medieval economy? Join us on Tuesday 11th at the IHR (online only) for Anna Molnar (KCL) on credit and change.
www.history.ac.uk/events/women...

07.02.2025 15:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800

Join the Economic & Social History of Premodern World seminar at the IHR on Tuesday (28/1) for Regina Grafe (Cambridge) on "Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800" #econhist #twitterstorians in person or online www.history.ac.uk/events/archa...

24.01.2025 14:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Bigamy in an Era of Clandestine Marriages

Bigamy and clandestine marriage in 18th century England - Rebecca Probert at the IHR this Tuesday (10th) econ hist seminar www.history.ac.uk/events/bigam... in person or online... #econhist #history

09.12.2024 09:49 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Excited and proud to have been elected as the next president of the economic history society. It’s a wonderful community to be part of.

03.12.2024 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 34    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Trans-Imperial Trade and Networked Capital in Britain’s Economic Development, 1660-1800

IHR economic history - We have the lovely Edmond Smith (Manchester) talking about Trans-Imperial Trade and Networked Capital in Britain’s Economic Development, 1660-1800 tomorrow (26 Nov). Online only I'm afraid. register www.history.ac.uk/events/trans... #econhist #history

25.11.2024 07:25 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Always good to start here with a good thing by good people

23.11.2024 19:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Excited to share my #JMP 🧡

❓How important is organizing production efficiently for the adoption of new technologies?

βœ… JMP shows organizational practices are instrumental for the integration of new technologies in production.

#econtwitter #EconJobMarket

22.11.2024 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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