The annual EHS Residential Training Course for Postgraduate Students will be held 3-6 December 2025.12 part-funded places are available, primarily designed to raise the quality of dissertations. Deadline for applications: 16:00 (UK) Friday 12 September.

Now on the Long Run: 'Early Modern Capitalism: Trade, Risk and Profit'. Maxine Berg (Warwick) sets out the themes of a one-day workshop of the History of Capitalism Project held at Brasenose College, Oxford, in 2024 on some of the parameters/practices of early modern capitalism.

RT @EcHistSocReview: Now on Early View: 'Scarring and Selection in the Great Irish Famine'. By Matthias Blum, Christopher L. Colvin & Eoin….

RT @EcHistSocReview: Now on Early View: 'Colonial origins of agglomeration: Evidence from Malayan rail stations'. By Yit Wey Liew, Muhammad….

RT @EcHistSocReview: Now on Early View: 'Who counts? Information capacity and the origins of education inequality in Morocco'. By Gabriel K….

Now on the Long Run Blog: 'Investigating U.S. Imperialism in Haiti through its Railways, 1909-1934'. Georgia Davison (Cambridge) writes about how the Economic History Society’s Research Fund for Graduate Students helped her fund trips to the archives for her MPhil dissertation.

RT @WComEHS: Hello from the EHS Women’s Committee! We have an exciting line up of events for the coming months! Check them out at https://t….

RT @WComEHS: Save the date! The EHS Women’s Committee is organising a walking tour of the Roman Walls in Exeter as a networking event on 22….

RT @WComEHS: CfP now out for the Annual Workshop of the EHS Women’s Committee. Theme: Women & Entrepreneurship - Agency, Experience, and E….

RT @jagjit_chadha: We are running a conference on long run productivity on 14 November at @ClareCollege. The deadline for submissions is 1….

RT @EcHistSocReview: Now on Early View: 'Child labour and industrialization: Evidence from factory records and the 1851 British census'.By….

RT @EcHistSocReview: Now on Early View: 'Preventing financial ruin: How the West India trade fostered creativity in crisis lending by the B….

The course will help prepare postgrads for the job market, improve their comm skills, widen their approach to their subjects and encourage them to form networks with established scholars and fellow students. Preference will be given to students who will be in their 2nd/3rd year.

The EHS can now also be found at the other place. For updates regarding the Long Run blog, articles in the Economic History Review, as well as for information about our annual conference, fellowships and grants follow:.@echistsoc.bsky.social.

Now on the Long Run: 'Imperial China’s eighteenth-century quota: how an affirmative-action experiment reshaped the exam empire'. Melanie Meng Xue (LSE) & Boxiao Zhang (Renmin) introduce their new working paper, which is based on a paper previously presented at an EHS Conference.

All are welcome to join the next EHS Women’s Committee networking event, where Professor Mark Stoyle will be leading a free walking tour of Exeter's Historic Walls. This will take place on 22/08/2025, 10:30 am - 12:00 pm. For further info and booking:.

This annual prize of £750 is awarded to the author(s) of the best article accepted for publication in the Economic History Review in the previous two calendar years. For more info and eligibility see:.