Professor of economic history at LSE. Historian of medicine, work and other stuff. Runner.

Joined December 2014
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Join us 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
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The benefits of EHS membership (inc. access to grants, prizes, fellowships and discounted conference attendance) are available in three forms: Individual, £21 Student, £11 (Both provide digital access to the Econ. History Review) Joint with the EHA (access to both journals), £59
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IHR #econhist seminar this week on bigamy and clandestine marriage in 18th century England #twitterstorian
Join us this Tuesday for Bigamy in an Era of Clandestine Marriages, with @ProfProbert. In person and hybrid. history.ac.uk/events/bigamy-…
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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. #econhist @EcHistSoc
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the IHR economic history scene is kicking off again - big questions about how merchants cooperate over long distances. it's more tenure track than grief's maghrebi. always worth a listen
Join us on Tuesday 12th at the IHR/online for Esther Sahle and Ulla Kypta on "Solving the Principal-Agent Problem Through Apprenticeship: Evidence from Sixteenth-Century Germany" #econhist #twitterstorians history.ac.uk/events/solving…
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𝗝𝘂𝗮𝗻 𝗝𝗼𝘀𝗲́ 𝗥𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗼 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 Juan's PhD thesis was awarded at the Association of Business Historians Conference. The Coleman Prize is for the best doctoral dissertation in business history. Congratulations @juan_jrmoreno!
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Announcing the digital publication of 12 years work by 150 volunteers. 3 mill words from 7 vols of English High Court of Admiralty depositions. From today you can access & interrogate XML files of HCA 13/63; 65; 68; 70; 71; 72 & 73 [1650 to 1666] chatgpt.com/g/g-AgaPatLNW-au…
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What London's guilds did for their members changed a lot between 1500 and 1700. We find that the people that Londoners trusted were often fellow guild members around 1500.
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Why? Two big things hit the city - the reformation and explosive growth. Both probably matter. But the loss of spiritual community seems likely to affect trust - and social capital particularly.
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150 years later the guild didn't mater much. Instead family and neighbours were trusted. You can read more in the Historical Journal doi:10.1017/S0018246X24000335
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This Wednesday, our alumna Safeena Husain (BSc Economic History 1995) will be awarded an Honorary Degree by LSE. She is the founder of @educate_girls, a non-profit organisation dedicated to girls’ education in rural India. Congratulations @safeenahusain! lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/05/202…
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Replying to @mmpaker
@mmpaker @phwallis we are online ! @EcHistSocReview doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13346 thanks to those who gave us the feedback to help propose nominal wage patterns and rigidities might be an indicator of imperfect competition (very 18C) as much as wage dispersion, inc @HubermanMichael
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How was the Manila Galleon financed? Find out from Juan Jose Rivas Moreno (UCL) on Friday 9 Feb at the IHR history.ac.uk/events/financi… #econhist #twitterstorians

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Hello Peoples! ***Call for Papers for a Workshop on the “use of Genealogical Sources in Economic History” 3rd and 4th of June 2024 at LSE***
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The book provides an exciting array of case studies and a promising purpose: going beyond the guild debate around the beneficial or harmful effects of guild apprenticeship, according to @AndreaCaracausi in this bookreview in TSEG tseg.nl/article/view/14869/1…
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Join us this Friday for Joris van den Tol on 'Dutch trade and credit in the Barbados Sugar Boom of the 17th Century'. hybrid. Sign up history.ac.uk/events/dutch-t…

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Published in India by Penguin
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The latest WP version of my paper on labor reallocation in interwar Britain, which is what I presented at the 2023 EHA in Pittsburgh, is now posted (and yes, it is the same project I've been working on for five years!): ssrn.com/abstract=4629039

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Ever wondered who built St Paul's? Very pleased that our look at how the unskilled labourers were recruited - and kept - is now published in the JEH. You can read it here doi.org/10.1017/S00220507230… Joint work with @judyzara @mmpaker
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