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Community, Educational Reform and Migration in Late Imperial China
24 Sep, 2025
In this blog post, Christoph Hess, who studied for his PhD at the University of Cambridge, introduces his research,...
Women, Money and Markets (1600-1950), 2023 Conference
23 Sep, 2025
In this blog post Dr Sarah Dredge, Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at Sheffield Hallam University introduces the Women,...
The Barbados Census of 1679 and the Legacies of Slavery in Early Modern England
17 Sep, 2025
This blog post is based on a grant awarded to Dr Michael Bennett of the University of Sheffield and...
From Records to Riches – An Automated Pipeline for Transcribing the Tables des Successions et Absences, 1790-1870
11 Sep, 2025
In this blog post, Aurelius Noble and Noah Sutter of the London School of Economics introduce their research, which...
The occupational structure of twentieth-century China: Evidence from lineage genealogies
9 Sep, 2025
In this post Ying Dai of University of Oxford discusses her ongoing research, supported by an EHS Carnevali Small...
Re-Writing the History of Commercial Capital
5 Sep, 2025
This post presents the forthcoming ‘Political Economy of Capital in the Pre-Modern World’ workshop, which is funded by the...
A Chronic Affliction: Capital Mobilisation in the Wartime Japanese Empire
2 Sep, 2025
In this post Tsz Ho Wong of University of Edinburgh discusses their ongoing research, supported by the EHS Research Fund...
Letters to Marie Stopes: Seeking Birth Control Advice in Scotland, 1918-1930
29 Aug, 2025
In this post Barbara Gabeler of University of Edinburgh (with cross-institutional supervision at the University of Glasgow) discusses their ongoing...
