Ever wondered who built St Paul's? Very pleased that our look at how the unskilled labourers were recruited - and kept - is now published in the JEH. You can read it here doi.org/10.1017/S00220… Joint work with Judy Stephenson Meredith M. Paker

The latest WP version of my paper on labor reallocation in interwar Britain, which is what I presented at the 2023 EHA in Pittsburgh, is now posted (and yes, it is the same project I've been working on for five years!): ssrn.com/abstract=46290…

Join us this Friday for Joris van den Tol on 'Dutch trade and credit in the Barbados Sugar Boom of the 17th Century'. hybrid. Sign up history.ac.uk/events/dutch-t…

Published in India by Penguin

The book provides an exciting array of case studies and a promising purpose: going beyond the guild debate around the beneficial or harmful effects of guild apprenticeship, according to Andrea Caracausi in this bookreview in TSEG tseg.nl/article/view/1…

Hello Peoples! ***Call for Papers for a Workshop on the “use of Genealogical Sources in Economic History” 3rd and 4th of June 2024 at LSE***

How was the Manila Galleon financed? Find out from Juan Jose Rivas Moreno (UCL) on Friday 9 Feb at the IHR history.ac.uk/events/financi… #econhist #twitterstorians

Meredith M. Paker Patrick Wallis we are online ! Economic History Review doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13… thanks to those who gave us the feedback to help propose nominal wage patterns and rigidities might be an indicator of imperfect competition (very 18C) as much as wage dispersion, inc Michael Huberman

This Wednesday, our alumna Safeena Husain (BSc Economic History 1995) will be awarded an Honorary Degree by LSE. She is the founder of Educate Girls, a non-profit organisation dedicated to girls’ education in rural India. Congratulations Safeena Husain! lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/05…

Announcing the digital publication of 12 years work by 150 volunteers. 3 mill words from 7 vols of English High Court of Admiralty depositions. From today you can access & interrogate XML files of HCA 13/63; 65; 68; 70; 71; 72 & 73 [1650 to 1666] chatgpt.com/g/g-AgaPatLNW-…

𝗝𝘂𝗮𝗻 𝗝𝗼𝘀𝗲́ 𝗥𝗶𝘃𝗮𝘀 𝗠𝗼𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗼 𝘄𝗶𝗻𝘀 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟰 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗺𝗮𝗻 𝗣𝗿𝗶𝘇𝗲 Juan's PhD thesis was awarded at the Association of Business Historians Conference. The Coleman Prize is for the best doctoral dissertation in business history. Congratulations Juan Jose Rivas Moreno!

the IHR economic history scene is kicking off again - big questions about how merchants cooperate over long distances. it's more tenure track than grief's maghrebi. always worth a listen

Excited and proud to have been elected as the next president of the economic history society. It’s a wonderful community to be part of. #econhist Economic History Society

IHR #econhist seminar this week on bigamy and clandestine marriage in 18th century England #twitterstorian

The benefits of EHS membership (inc. access to grants, prizes, fellowships and discounted conference attendance) are available in three forms: Individual, £21 Student, £11 (Both provide digital access to the Econ. History Review) Joint with the EHA (access to both journals), £59

Join us at the IHR on Tuesday (28/1) for Regina Grafe (Cambridge) on "Archaic Lending or Precocious Financialization? Spanish American Finance to 1800" #econhist #twitterstorians in person or online