Oxford Economic & Social History
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Centre for Economic & Social History at the University of Oxford. Live tweeting of our faculty and graduate seminars and #econhist updates.
Wonderful hosts and amazing audience in Edinburgh yesterday for Adam Smith Lecture on “Market, State, and Contagion from the Black Death to Covid”. @AdamSmithHouse @OxfordESH @PrincetonUPress
Last night we had the pleasure of welcoming Professor @SheilaghOgilvie to Panmure House, where she delivered a lecture exploring the fascinating parallels between pandemics and the institutions of social and economic life. Facilitated by @DrAdam_Dixon, the audience was guided…
An inspirational economic historian @OxfordESH, captured so beautifully by @BSullivanart #econhist #econhis
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Last week we have Christopher Sims and Matteo Ruzzante (@NorthwesternU) discussing their project on the introduction and diffusion of guano as a nitrogenous fertilizer in 19c England #econhist #twitterstorians
Last week our own Yifei Liu presented his very exciting project on the multi-structural break analysis of China’s regional development from 1949 to 2022 #econhist #twitterstorians
This week we have Jens Oehlen @JensOehlen from Stockholm University sharing his super interesting project on the impact of the Allied breaking of the Nazi Enigma, providing the first data-driven analysis of WWII intelligence #econhist #twitterstorians
A pleasure to talk about serfdom and my Leverhulme project yesterday at the Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development. @OxfordESH @ArthurLewisLab @LeverhulmeTrust #echist
Sheilagh Ogilvie (Oxford) is now presenting her paper “Was Serfdom Good for the Economy? Peasants, Lords, and Markets in Early Modern Bohemia” 👇🏼
Associated researcher @MariannaAstore presenting her @GloCoBank research at the @EcHistSoc conference in April
Marianna Astore (@MariannaAstore) in Glasgow presenting “Correspondent Banking and Migrant Remittances: The Case of Banco di Napoli during the First Globalization” at the Economic History Society Annual Conference, 6–8/04.
@GloCoBank's @MariannaAstore will be presenting one of her correspondent banking papers today at the University of Geneva @DEHES_UNIGE Economic History Seminar
Notre séminaire d'histoire économique Paul Bairoch aura le plaisir d'accueillir Marianna Astore (@MariannaAstore ) jeudi prochain (08.05). @UNIGEnews @JFloresZendejas @PNoguesMarco
Alyssa Rusonik (@HECParis) who’s now visiting @NuffieldCollege led this week’s seminar discussing her project “institutional commitment and economic revival: evidence from palace-building in renaissance Rome” #econhist #twitterstorians
This week, Monique Rieske @HumboldtUni kicks off our Wednesday seminar series this term with her project on the effects of the Nazis’s violent Fight for Berlin in attracting support and quelling opposition #econhist #twitterstorians
Congratulations to Jem Ruf and Yunyufei Luo @YunyufeiL for winning this year’s Thirsk Prize for best MSc and MPhil dissertation!
We congratulate the winner of this year's EHS Thirsk-Feinstein PhD Dissertation Prize, presented at the annual conference to Louis Henderson (Oxford) for their thesis, ‘Innocence and experience: Early childhood education and industrialisation in England and Wales, 1767-1876’.
What does history tell us about trade barriers to favour domestic interest-groups? On guilds and trade in medieval Europe, check out this BBC series, broadcast again this week. @BBCRadio4 @OxfordESH #echist bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09…
Congratulations to our DPhil student Louis Henderson, now a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow @LSEEcHist who’s awarded this year’s Thirsk-Feinstein Dissertation Prize in the EHS annual conference 2025 in Glasgow @EcHistSoc #econhist #twitterstorians
Had a fun podcasting with Tyler Cowen on “Controlling Contagion”, guilds, and the persistence of bad institutions @OxfordESH @PrincetonUPress
My Conversation with the excellent Sheilagh Ogilvie marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…
Wonderful audience today for “Controlling Contagion” at the Oxford Literary Festival @PrincetonUPress @OxfordESH
A great talk this morning from @SheilaghOgilvie as part of the @oxfordlitfest on her new book ‘Controlling Contagion’ in which she examines economic and institutional responses to pandemics across the last 700 years 🦠 😷
My contribution to the @AfEconHis textbook on African economic history is out! Africa’s Lost Decades, 1974-1994: aehnetwork.org/textbook/afric…
Now, Linda Goldberg (FRBNY) delivers the conference keynote lecture, “The Risk Sensitivity of Global Liquidity Flows: Heterogeneity, Recent Evolution and Drivers” #glocobank #banking #payments
Now @wikisling presents on the heterogeneous trade effect of the classical gold standard in Argentina over 1875-1913 #glocobank #banking #payments
Now @schneider_s1 talks about correspondent banking and the internationalisation strategies of German universal banks, 1960s-1980s #glocobank #banking #payments