The European Historical Economics Society

The study examines State intervention into the British patent system during the Napoleonic Wars, and finds that the British military used the patent system to secure access to experimental technologies.

Find the blog post on our website!

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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

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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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

The full blog post can be found here:

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The Edwardian property slump, a significant yet underexplored event in British economic history, saw a dramatic decline in house prices in London between 1900 and 1914. A recent study by Antoninus M. Samy uses novel data sources to shed light on the extent and implications of this downturn.

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

New paper and blog post!

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

By A. M. Samy

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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 🙌

<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library 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...

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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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!

🚨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

The Award Committee will select three finalists, who will be invited to present their work at the EHES Conference 2025 in Hohenheim.
We look forward to your submissions.
#EconomicHistory #PhDOpportunity #EHES2025 #GinoLuzzattoAward

📘 Eligibility: PhD theses defended between July 2023 and June 2025
📩 Submit: A 3-page abstract (including a short motivation letter) and the full dissertation to ehes2025@uni-hohenheim.de

⏰ 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

Read the blog post here:

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The study finds that Swedish immigrants to the US (1900–1910) saw migration returns exceeding 60%, with higher returns among the lowest social classes—mainly due to higher US wages, not occupational mobility. (Twitter handle: @m_castillob, Lund University)

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

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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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

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 ...

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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Historical Research and Policy Making

#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 & 🧵

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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The state sought to cut costs to cope with external competition. Stagnant wages were tolerated due to a paternalistic state-worker relationship, weak class consciousness, women’s supportive roles in factory and agricultural work, and limited alternatives outside the factory.

The Corden-Neary model predicts wage divergence across sectors in economies importing cheap manufactures and exporting agricultural products to the detriment of industry. While the findings align with this, wage setting also contributes to wage stagnation in state factories.

Comparison of this new wage series with other sectors (construction, agriculture) and with the same sector abroad (Belgium, England) reveals that wages in Ottoman state textile factories remained stagnant relative to both domestic and international counterparts in the period.

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.

Human capital at the beginning of the eighteenth-century Catalonia: Age-heaping and numeracy in a changing economy Abstract. This article analyses arithmetic levels in early eighteenth-century Catalonia using 6,700 individual observations and the age-heaping methodology

And the full paper here!

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Read the blog post here:

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Read more in the full article published in @The_EHES: "Human Capital at the Beginnings of the 18th Century Catalonia: Age-Heaping and Numeracy in a Changing Economy."
A contribution to the debate on #HumanCcapital and #Industrialisation!

This study provides new tools to understand how practical skills influenced Catalonia's economy and society. A fresh perspective that challenges the traditional focus on #literacy. 📚