Yesterday, I successfully defended my PhD thesis! Huge thanks to my supervisors Johan Fourie and Edward Kerby, committee, colleagues Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past, friends, and family for their support. What a great learning experience – I wouldn't trade it for anything. Excited for what lies ahead.

🚨Reminder: 31 days to submit your abstracts!

Congratulations to LEAP's Munashe Chideya for successfully defending his PhD yesterday! What an impressive milestone! 🎉

📢LEAP is hiring!📢

New article in Slavery & Abolition online and Routledge History, Heritage Studies & Archaeology: Bound to be Free? Manumission in Cape Town, 1825–34 (Author: Kate Ekama) tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

LEAP's Kate Ekama publishes in Slavery & Abolition: Ekama, K. (2024). Bound to be Free? Manumission in Cape Town, 1825–34. Slavery & Abolition, 1–22. doi.org/10.1080/014403… doi.org/10.1080/014403…

🚨LEAP's Erik Green, Calumet Links & co-authors published in the Economic History Review Carlos, A. M., Green, E., Links, C., and Redish, A., ‘Early modern globalisation and the extent of indigenous agency: Trade, commodities and ecology’. doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13…

🚨 Reminder to join us this Friday for a LEAP Discussion: 30 August at 12:00 with Prof Tomohiro Hara #LEAP #SU

🎙️ Join Johan Fourie and Jonathan Schoots as they chat with top social science scholars and explore history’s impact on today and tomorrow. 📻 Tune in to the premiere on 3 Sept 2024: open.spotify.com/episode/6z3z3p…

The first episode of the Our Long Walk #podcast is out today! You can find it wherever you listen to your podcasts.

📚 LEAPer Karen Jennings publishes a fascinating story titled "Washing by Hand: A Brief Look at Cape Laundry since the 17th Century" litnet.co.za/washing-by-han…

🚨final day to submit your abstracts!

LSE Department of Economic History Patrick Fitzsimmons George Mason Economics Timothy Ngalande from Stellenbosch FC making his prof Johan Fourie proud with cool research on race-biased tech change in South Africa pre-1985

Indeed! Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past (Though Tim is super competent, I'm not sure he's good enough to represent one of Africa's top football teams... Stellenbosch University, not Stellenbosch FC)

A new paper by Calumet Links, Erik Green, Ann Carlos and Angela Redish explores the trading interactions between the Khoe and the VOC at the Cape, and the Cree and the Hudson's Bay Company in Canada. What began as a simple comparison evolved into a richer examination of colonial

African Economic History Network opening keynote with Prof Gareth Austin at Sapienza University #AEHN #LEAP

LEAP’s Calumet Links presenting “Big Data and Writing of History of the Global South: The Case of the Cape of Good Hope” Visit capepanel.org for more information #LEAP

LEAPer Jonathan Schoots presents “The Formation and Transformation of a Settle Elite: Social and Economic Elite Persistence in the Cape Colony, 1720-1890” at AEHN 2024 #LEAP #AEHN African Economic History Network (AEHN)

LEAPs Kate Ekama presents her research “Financial Lives of the Enslaved in Cape Town” at AEHN 2024 Visit capepanel.org for more information #LEAP #AEHN

LEAPs Johan Fourie presenting “Price of Prestige: Social Status in Cape Colony Auctions, 1700-1825” at AEHN 2024 #LEAP #SU #AEHN