The (extended) LSE Department of Economic History family at this year's Economic History Society Annual Conference in Newcastle

Many thanks to Economic History Society and Northumbria Uni for organising this superb conference!

Had a blast presenting my poster on the geography of intergenerational mobility in Victorian England, which shows a north-south divide in occupational mobility, yesterday evening to many brilliant economists at @RES2024 Annual Conference.

Photo credit: Eoin Dignam 🇺🇦

Many congratulations to our colleague Professor Chris Minns (@LSEEcHist) who has been made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences! Fellows of the Academy are elected for their substantial contributions to social sciences.

Nice to see this out as a working paper. A first run at what will be a lifelong project: can we learn lessons from history? Under what circumstances? Ben Schneider LSE Department of Economic History #EconTwitter #econhist

Pleasure to present my paper on intergenerational mobility in England, 1851-1911 at World Clio in Dublin, cheered on by the quintessential Irish weather.
#Clio23 #EconomicHistory LSE Department of Economic History Cliometric Society Centre for Economics, Policy and History (CEPH)

Victor Perez-Sanchez, Ziming Zhu, Nick Fitzhenry and Sheila Pugh discussed their research on monetary policy, occupational mobility, social inequality and investment behaviour at the New Researcher Poster Session on 1 April. (3/5)

In a recent seminar 📽📊, our PhD student Victor Perez-Sanchez presented his research on Castille’s 17th-c. monetary policy, specifically its decision — when the kingdom was the largest recipient and minter of American silver 🪙— to issue a low-value copper coin: The Vellon. (🧵1/5)

What are the limitations of traditional estimates of intergenerational social mobility? In today’s graduate seminar, Ziming Zhu (@LSEEcHist) presented his revised estimate of intergenerational occupation mobility in Victorian England. (🧵1/6)