Dr Victoria Bateman

At the National Portrait Gallery, placing women at the heart of Economic History. Launching my new book, #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power, out now @headlinebooks.bsky.social #womenwealthpower

Victoria Bateman: If every woman had the ability to control her own fertility, the world would be a very different place The historian and Cambridge economist on the myths that erased women from history, the “tradwife” revival, and how control over women’s lives shapes economies.

My latest interview is out now:
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A pleasure to speak to Charlotte Owen-Burge #womenwealthpower #Economica

Anyone else going Cambridge people?

@camunicampop.bsky.social @camhistory.bsky.social

In #Cambridge this Thursday? Want to hear how women made the global economy? Do come along to #Heffers to hear me talk about my new book, #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power (@headlinebooks.bsky.social). Tickets here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/economica-...

Introducing my favourite feminist from history - the rebellious, clever
& unashamed #MaryWollstonecraft - at the launch of my new book, #Economica: A Global history of Women, Wealth & Power @headlinebooks.bsky.social @hachetteuk.bsky.social. It goes to show that women have never been #tradwives.

An enormous pleasure to be interviewed by the brilliant Mishal Husain at Bloomberg’s “Davos for Women” this week, discussing my new book, #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power (published in the US this week by Basic Books / Seal Press) #BBGWomenMoneyPower

🎉🎉🎉 My new book, #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power is published in the US today (Basic Books / Seal Press). A huge thank you to @benchu.bsky.social @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social @peterfrankopan.bsky.social @timharford.ft.com @enortonhistory.bsky.social for your kind endorsements.

YouTube video by Breaking Math Economica with Victoria Bateman

This one’s sharp, provocative, and timely.

🎧 Listen to our full conversation with Dr Victoria Bateman @vnbateman.bsky.social on Breaking Math Podcast @breakingmath.bsky.social

💬 And tell us: What do you think economists still get wrong about women and growth?

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📡 Such a pleasure to speak to @1autumnleaf.bsky.social @breakingmath.bsky.social podcast about my new book - published today in the US - #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power (Seal Press / Basic Books). #econhist

A pleasure to speak and sign copies of my new book, #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power at Guildford Book Festival today. Thank you to everyone who came along. #womenwealthpower

Really enjoyed chatting with @nickshepley.bsky.social - available now to listen 👇 (with a super write up here: explaininghistory.org/2025/09/25/e...) #womenwealthpower

Victoria Bateman, Podcast Episode · New Books in Economic and Business History · 20/09/2025 · 57m

You can listen to me discussing my new book - #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power - on the @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast with the fabulous Miranda Melcher: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/v... #womenwealthpower

Why tradwives aren’t trad The housewife is a Victorian invention. History shows us women’s true economic power

There’s nothing traditional about a “tradwife”, writes Victoria Bateman. “Women have always been at the heart of the economy, doing everything from building pyramids to mining coal and brewing beer.”

Thank you @profaliceroberts.bsky.social Delighted to say that the audiobook version of #Economica is out now in the UK. Really enjoyed recording it - and really looking forward to listening to #Domination.

My new book - #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power - in good company in the window of @hatchards.bsky.social bookshop, London, with @profaliceroberts.bsky.social, James Fox and Harry Sidebottom.

A pleasure to chat with Danny Bird at BBC History Magazine about my new book #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power. You can read the interview in print (October edition, out now) or listen to the podcast @historyextra.bsky.social: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h... #womenwealthpower

Economica - Victoria Bateman, at Heffers Bookshop Join us on the 9th of October as Victoria Bateman discusses her brand new book 'Economica', a new history of Women, Wealth, and Power.

"Economica - Victoria Bateman, at Heffers Bookshop" www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/economica-... Next month with @vnbateman.bsky.social in #Cambridge.

Delighted to be ⁦at #SevenoaksBookshop today‬⁩ signing copies of my new book #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power, telling the story of how women made the world wealthy. If you’d like to read a history of the global economy that centres women, buy your copy now. #Sevenoaks #Kent

The message of #Economica: we cannot explain the rise and decline of civilisations - or insulate our own economies from the same fate - without placing women’s economic freedoms at the heart of the story. #womenwealthpower @headlinebooks.bsky.social @hachetteuk.bsky.social

Economica: A global history of women, wealth and power book in front of Word on the Street bookshop

Thanks to @wotsashtead.bsky.social for supplying with Economica: A global history of women, wealth and power by @vnbateman.bsky.social

The brilliant @timleunig.bsky.social at the launch of my new book #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power, showing - as always - that there is never a dull moment in economic history. Thank you Tim! #womenwealthpower

A huge thank you not only to everyone who came along for the launch of my new book #Economica this week but also to everyone who is so kindly taking the time to read, order or recommend it. If you’re attending a book festival or bookshop event this autumn, I can’t wait to meet you. #womenwealthpower

The message of #Economica: we cannot explain the rise and decline of civilisations - or insulate our own economies from the same fate - without placing women’s economic freedoms at the heart of the story. #womenwealthpower @headlinebooks.bsky.social @hachetteuk.bsky.social

Contrary to the belief that women have spent most of history as housewives, #Economica 📗 shows that women have always been at the centre of the economy, whether as entrepreneurs, merchants and investors or as pyramid builders, brewers and miners (and everything else besides). #womenwealthpower

The launch of #Economica was a chance to celebrate the thousands of years of women’s contributions to economic growth - contributions that have all too often passed unnoticed. Women’s economic freedom is - and always has been - at the heart of economic success. #womenwealthpower

It was a privilege to celebrate the launch of my new book #Economica: A Global History of Women, Wealth & Power with so many esteemed economists, historians, journalists and business leaders this week at the National Portrait Gallery in London 🎉🎉🎉🧵

Congratulations to @vnbateman.bsky.social on launch of Economica. Such a wonderful book:

‘Making the case for women’s central importance, readers will be left wondering how economic history could ever be studied without reference to one half of the world’s population’
#economica #economichistory

Lovely to see the fabulous Alice Loxton at launch yesterday for Economica by @vnbateman.bsky.social at the National Portrait Gallery. I loved Alice’s Eighteen (especially Empress Matilda as a teenager!) and can’t wait for her book on the Eleanor crosses #economica #eighteen #womenwhoruledtheworld

During launch last night of @vnbateman.bsky.social wonderful Economica it was fabulous to tour National Portrait Gallery’s powerful women who played economic role in world history. Including Ada Lovelace, Dorothea Jordan, Catherine of Braganza, Elizabeth I. @nationalportraitgallery #economica