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Female Poor Law Guardians 1862-1929: A National Study

13 Mar, 2026
In this blog Steven King (Nottingham Trent University), Jan Overfield Shaw (formerly National Trust) and Elizabeth Hurren (University of...

Shortlist for the Thirsk-Feinstein PhD Dissertation Prize

13 Mar, 2026
The Economic History Society has introduced an annual prize of ÂŁ1,000 for the best doctoral dissertation in Economic and/or...

Shortlist for the First Monograph Prize in Economic and/or Social History 2024-2025

12 Mar, 2026
The Economic History Society awards a prize of ÂŁ1,000, on a biennial basis, for the best first monograph in...

The Political Economy and Effectiveness of Early Twentieth Century British Alcohol Policy

10 Mar, 2026
Padraig McKee (Queen’s University Belfast) is a recipient of a grant from the Economic History Society’s Research Fund for...

The occupational structure of Britain c.1379-1911

5 Mar, 2026
In this blog post Leigh Shaw Taylor (University of Cambridge) presents some of the findings of the Occupational Structure...

Subsidising Whiteness: British Shipping and Racialised Politics after the Great Depression

2 Mar, 2026
In this blog post Shagnick Bhattacharya (Independent Scholar) presents their research, which was supported by the 2026 Joint BME...

Power and Plenty? A New, Quantitative Lens on the British Empire

27 Feb, 2026
In this blog post Noam Yuchtman (London School of Economics), Karolina Hutkova (London School of Economics), Ernesto Dal BĂł,...

A Thousand-Year Inquiry into Monetary Decentralization in Pre-Modern China

24 Feb, 2026
In this blog post Zoey Shen (London School of Economics) presents their research, which was supported by the EHS...
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