LSE Department of Economic History

Congratulations to @NickArtFitz and Mina Ishizu for receiving the 2025 #LSE Class #Teaching Awards 🧑‍🏫🥳info.lse.ac.uk/staff/educatio… #econhist #education

Is #export credit #insurance the secret ingredient to the Korean growth miracle 📦📈🇰🇷? Find out more in our new Blog Post by Alice Cho: blogs.lse.ac.uk/economichistor… #econhist #lse #Korea

🧐 We're looking forward to attending tonight's @LSEEcHist & @LSEMiddleEast event with Mohamed Saleh. Saleh will explain why democracy struggled to thrive in the Global South. #LSEEvents Hybrid. More info 👇 lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/05…

🚨 Join us on 29/5 for @msaleh1982 talk, "Elite Conflict, #Colonialism & #Democracy in the #MiddleEast", where he discusses the drivers of authoritarianism and democracy in this region. Hosted by @LSEEcHist & @LSEMiddleEast. #EcHist #LSEEvents Info here: lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/05…

🥳🌍Delighted to announce that Leigh Gardner has been awarded a @BritishAcademy_ Mid-Career Fellowship for her project "Exporting the American Dream to #Africa? US Expansion and Economic Development under #Colonial Rule, 1914-45". More here: lnkd.in/eEkKWv4G #econhist #lse

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Apprenticeship shaped economic growth in early modern England. In last week's @LSEEcHist event, @phwallis discussed how apprenticeship contributed to the growth of cities, the movement of workers, etc. #LSEEvents Listen to the entire lecture 👇 lse.ac.uk/lse-player?id=…

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Join us for tonight's @LSEEcHist event with @phwallis. Prof Patrick Wallis will discuss how apprenticeship helped reshape the English economy between 1500-1800. #LSEEvents In person and online. More info 👇 lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/05…

Our department was delighted to take part in the first LSE PSE Joint Economic History Workshop in Paris! Faculty members Neil Cummins (@NJCummins) and Pamfili Antipa, and PhD students Andrés Irarrázaval, @flo_jfriedrich , and @NoahWSutter presented their research. #EconHistory

Join us May 14th for the launch of @phwallis new book on #apprenticeship ⚒️ and economic growth 📈, showing the contributions of the scheme in early modern #England @LSEpublicevents lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/05… #econhist #economics #lse #education #LSEEvents

Thrilled to co-organise the first ever LSE-PSE joint Economic History Workshop which will take place soon (29-30th of April) at PSE with an amazing lineup of @LSEEcHist and @PSEinfo students and staff: #econhistory #econtwitter

Our PhD students are ready for the EHS annual conference in Glasgow this weekend! 💪📷 @EcHistSoc @flo_jfriedrich @gregoiresalter @ChevronsApart

🚀 Kicking off soon! Join us Thursday, April 10 at 5 PM CET for Louis Henderson (@LSEEcHist) on family economics & marital birth control in London (1760-1870). Thrilled to have @EconMattCurtis as chair! 📅 See you online!

@LSEEcHist's Andrés Irarrázaval presented his paper "The Historical Fabric of Inequality in the Global South: Property, Markets, or Redistribution?" in our department's graduate seminar this week. #inequality #globalinequality #economichistory

We had the honor of welcoming Michela Giorcelli (@M_Giorcelli) for our annual Epstein Lecture today. Her lecture explored a period of exceptionally high productivity growth in history—World War II—and the role played by the spread of management practices. #EconomicHistory

Don't miss out on our annual Epstein Lecture tonight! @M_Giorcelli will discuss her work on #technology and its diffusion after #WW2. Make sure to join in person or online💻⚗️💾

🚨Join us for our annual Epstein lecture on 20th March where @M_Giorcelli will discuss her work on the diffusion of soft technologies during and after WWII. More info here: lse.ac.uk/Events/2025/03… @LSEpublicevents #lse #econhist #tech #WWII