The following are brought to members' attention:
- Call for expressions of interest: Transnational Histories of Voluntary Action Network
- Voluntary Action History Society 'blog'
- Professor Jane Humphries, President of the Economic History Society, has been awarded the Gyorgi Ranki Biennial Prize of the Economic History Association for her book Childhood and Child Labour in the British industrial Revolution (CUP 2010).
- Opening Pandora's box: a new look at the industrial revolution, by Professor Sir Tony Wrigley.
- ESRC Knowledge Exchange Scheme. Call opens 1 September 2011.
- Agricultural History Review Essay Competition, sponsored by the British Agricultural History Society. Deadline: 30 September 2011.
- Japanese earthquake and tsunami, March 2011.
- ESRC Accredited Doctoral Training Centres (DTCs).
- HEFCE REF panel membership.
- Social Accounting in a Historical Context: Modelling the Atlantic Economy, 1850-1940. A series of three public lectures by Professor Mark Thomas.
- Bank of England Quarterly Bulletin, Q4 2010; The UK recession in context - what do three centuries of of data tell us? Sandy Hills & Ryland Thomas (B of E Monetary Assessment & Strategy Division) & Nicholas Dimsdale (University of Oxford).
- The Children who made Victorian Britain. BBC4 Tuesday, 1 February, 9.00p.m.
- AHRC Delivery Plan, 2011-15.
- ESRC Delivery Plan, 2011-15.
- Campaign for Social Science, led by the Academy of Social Sciences.
- IEHA Newsletter 2010.
- PowerPoint presentation of 2nd annual meeting of ESRC with learned societies. 27 October 2010.
- Press briefings for the EHS Annual Conference 2010.
- The second volume in the CUP series, New Approaches to Economic and Social History, has been published. 'An Economic History of Europe', by Karl Gunnar Persson.
- Economic History Review Early View: available Online, members can now access fully-corrected and complete forthcoming articles.
- 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).
- 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.
- The final version of Professor Farnie's and Dr Tweedale's Bio-bibliography of economic and social history is now available. King Cotton: A tribute to Douglas A. Farnie.
- Following a ruling by the Inland Revenue, members of the Society can use Gift Aid for their annual subscriptions and thereby boost the Society's Revenue. If you wish to use this facility, please complete and return the Gift Aid Declaration.
- Old Bailey Proceedings Online, user wiki.
