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Welcome to the Economic History Society
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- NEW Residential Training Course for Postgraduate Students. 3-6 December 2008, Chancellors, University of Manchester. Deadline for applications: 4 August 2008.
- NEW Women's Committee Workshop, 1 November 2008, Institute of Historical Research, London.
- NEW Media Briefings for the Economic History Society Annual Conference 2008.
- NEW The Michael Young Prize 2009, offered by the ESRC in partnership with the Young Foundation. Open to all early career social science researchers. Deadline for applications: 1 July 2008.
- Call for papers details of all calls for papers and forthcoming conferences can be found here; see also the EHS calendar, accessible from this page.
- NEW Business Archives Council Bursary for Business History Research. Extended deadline: 23 May 2008.
- NEW PhD Studentship 'The consumer behaviour of Caribbean settlers in Northamptonshire, c.1955-75', University of Northampton. Deadline for applications: 28 May 2008.
- NEW Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Dundee. Deadline for applications: 1 May 2008.
- NEW Lectureship in History with an interest in the social history of health and/or medicine, broadly defined; University of Cardiff. Deadline for applications: 16 May 2008. Re-advertisement: previous applicants will be considered.
- NEW PhD Studentship in Business, Banking or Financial History. The Centre for Business History, University of Glasgow. Deadline for applications: 30 April 2008.
- NEW IEHA Newsletter, including information on the 15th World Economic History Congress, 3-7 August 2009, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
- NEW Three new prizes from the Economic History Society: PhD Dissertation Prize, First Monograph Prize, Teaching Prize.
- NEW ESRC current funding opportunities.
- NEW Call for experts on Germany and the Low Countries (1200-1500) for participation in an international conference, Florence, May 2008.
- NEW Publisher discounts from Boydell and Brewer.
- NEW Economic History Review Datasets: beginning with Bob Allen's recent article, 'Progress and poverty in early modern Europe' (vol 56.3, pp. 404-43), we intend to deposit here the datasets upon which articles are based. Those who can offer datasets for articles published earlier in the Review are encouraged to do so, as are those who have articles now accepted for publication. In the first instance please contact the Web Editor. The latest deposit is for King 'The production and consumption of bar iron in early modern England and Wales' (vol. 58.1, pp. 1-33).
- NEW 21st Century Society. New journal of the Academy of Social Sciences.
- NEW Economic History Review Online Early: available through Synergy, members can now access fully-corrected and complete forthcoming articles.
- NEW ESRC Society Today - a major online project designed to encourage wider access to funded social and economic research - celebrates six month success.
- NEW Searchable bibliography of articles on north-east history and archaeology.
- NEW Following a recent ruling by the Inland Revenue members of the Society can use Gift Aid for their annual subscriptions and thereby boost the Society's Revenue by 28p/£1.00 of subscription (it can also be backdated to April 2000). If you wish to use this facility, please complete and return the Gift Aid Declaration.
- NEW The 4th edn of Professor Farnie's Bio-bibliography of economic and social historians is now available.
- NEW Economic History Review abstracts now available: November 2005, August 2005, May 2005, February 2005, November 2004, August 2004 and May 2004.
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The following are brought to members' attention:
- British Steel Archive Project
- ESTER, European Graduate School for Training in Economic and Social Historical Research.
- RESPECT Project, funded by the European Commissions's Information Society Technologies (IST) Programme to draw up professional and ethical guidelines for the conduct of socio-economic research.
- National Awards for History Teaching in Higher Education, administered by the Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology, and supported by the Economic History Society, The Historical Association, History at the Universities Defence Group, the Royal Historical Society and the Social History Society.
- The Clare Evans Prize is awarded annually for an original essay (6-8,000 words) in the field of women's history or gender and history.
- International Economic History Association World Congress, 21-25 August 2006, Helsinki, Finland.
- The History Data Service of the Arts and Humanities Data Service (now known as AHDS History) publishes online and in print a number of guides to good practice.
- A Review of The Economic History Review during the last 50 years by Tony Wrigley, Vice-President of the Society and a former Editor of the Review.
- 75th Anniversary Collection: Living Economic and Social History.
- Royal Historical Society Studies in History; co-funded by the Economic History Society and published by Boydell & Brewer; recent volumes include: Richard Toye, The Labour Party and the planned economy, 1931-1951 (2003) and Richard Goddard, Lordship and medieval urbanisation: Coventry, 1043-1355 (2004); for these and others in this series.
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