Had a fantastic time visiting Harvard University Houghton’s special collections library, collecting some more data for Time Traveller Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past 📈📖

LEAP's Edward Kerby & co-authors use computational methods to uncover new perspectives Kerby, E., Moradi, A., and Odendaal, H., 'African time travellers: What can we learn from 500 years of written accounts?', The Economic History Review, (2024), pp. 1-38. doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13…

Now on Early View: 'African time travellers: What can we learn from 500 years of written accounts?' By Edward Kerby, Alexander Monradi and Hanjo Odendaal. Edward Kerby @MoradiAlexander Hanjo Odendaal Stellenbosch University Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past @unibz_news Bureau for Economic Research (BER) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.11…

Among the most exciting datasets and innovative approaches in (African) Economic History asking new questions by @MoradiAlexander & Edward Kerby

Fascinating work: 230,000 pages of travel diaries exploring 500 years of Africa's economic history. In a way, a wake-up call on the key role of the observer (bias) at generalizing historical knowledge. Economic History Review

What to learn from 712 journeys of 605 travellers to Africa? Article summary by Edward Kerby @MoradiAlexander & Odendaal in Economic History Review : African Time Travellers: What can we learn from 500 years of written accounts? – African Economic History Network (aehnetwork.org)

Time Traveller presentation at African Economic History Network (AEHN) Conference #AEHN #LEAP

The team - Lauren Coetzee and Karin Pallaver - presenting new work on pre-modern currency areas African Economic History Network (AEHN). Frontier research using BIG DATA to show how Africa was more integrated than previously thought. Joint with @MoradiAlexander, Alessandro De Cola and Edward Kerby

Introducing the forthcoming special issue on "Comparative Development in colonial Africa" in Industrial History Review edited jointly with Dácil Juif & Kate Frederick at the African Economic History Network (AEHN) Meeting 2024 Sapienza Università di Roma, including 5 papers on Portuguese 🇦🇴🇲🇿 French 🇸🇳🇧🇯🇲🇱 and British African 🇿🇲 colonies.

📢Calling all Text-as-Data researchers ⭐️CfP Text-as-Data session: Narratives, Culture and Perceptions💥World Economic History Congress,📍Lund 2025. CfP deadline⏰16th Nov '24⌛️. Elliott Ash Philine Widmer @essobecker