📢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⌛️. @ellliottt @phinifa @essobecker

⭐ Thanks to the African Economic History Network and Sapienza University of Rome for inviting our LEAP team to #AEHN2024! Engaging with top academics on Africa's rich economic history was a fantastic experience. ⭐

@MoradiAlexander presenting research from the @TimeTravelData project titled “Narratives from European-African Encounters” at AEHN 2024 #AEHN #LEAP

@KarinPallaver and @coetzeelauren presenting the preliminary results of our project (with @MoradiAlexander @Edkerby and @UbuntR314) @AfEconHis meeting in Rome. "Currency areas in modern precolonial Africa: New insights from traveller accounts"

Yesterday, I successfully defended my PhD thesis! Huge thanks to my supervisors @JohanFourieZA and @Edkerby, committee, colleagues @LEAP_SU, friends, and family for their support. What a great learning experience – I wouldn't trade it for anything. Excited for what lies ahead.

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. @Edkerby @MoradiAlexander @UbuntR314 @StellenboschUni @LEAP_SU @unibz_news @BERcoza https://t.co/9TLrztftVF

@EcHistSocReview @Edkerby @MoradiAlexander @UbuntR314 @StellenboschUni @LEAP_SU @unibz_news @BERcoza @MoradiAlexander, @UbuntR314 and @edkerby are really having fun working on this project.

Looking back at LEAP's Frontiers of Finance this Friday: Maphosa, L. M., Ehlers, A., Fourie, J., & Kerby, E. M. (2021). The growth and diversity of the Cape private capital market, 1892–1902. Economic History of Developing Regions, 36(2), 149–174. https://t.co/fEKB5p0I11

Trending in #History: https://t.co/g6yAeXQXpw 1) UN Tour Guides, Gender & Public Diplomacy, 1952–77 (@shafrdh) 2) The Fall of Constantinople & the New Political Dynamic in the Holy Roman Empire, 1453–67 3) Competitiveness, Civilizationism & the Anglosphere (@MIHJournal) 4)

Come see @alexmoradi present a new paper on “Narratives from European-African Encounters (1400 - 1900)” at the @EcHistSoc. A 🧵 on this fascinating, ground-breaking research.

For comparison, how about an Econ textbook? Even @DAcemogluMIT has highs and lows to his micro textbook. Its starts wells and ends badly. The dismal science hits a low with market failure homework.

Can narrative arcs detect good stories from factual accounts? Exhibit 1: Adams (top) never travelled, while Livingstone (bottom) traversed the continent. Things were really bumpy for Livingstone with highs and lows of exploration in 1850. Adams had it too easy.

The Time Travellers are at the 2nd Bolzano Historical Economics Workshop @unibz_news, presenting Rimorfacta. Are Travellers to Africa (1500 - 1900) writing about facts or making up fiction?

@MoradiAlexander @JCBuggle @mara_squi @carciccar @Edkerby @UbuntR314 Can't wait to be there!

Rimorfacta = systematic #data from travellers in Africa (1500 - 1900). This data can answer important #economics questions about precolonial #agriculture, #slavetrade, gunpowder & violence, and #technology. @MoradiAlexander presenting this exciting new paper at the @AfEconHis.

If you're interested in learning more about Munashe's work, be sure to attend his presentation on Saturday, May 27th, 2023, from 11:00 am to 12:30 pm, during Session 7C: Empire, in Ariane 3. Conference Programme link:

📕🌍New AEHN Working Paper No. 72 by @beckerbastian & @FelixMzS1 : Women on a Mission: Protestant Legacies of Gender Equality in Africa? Studying: (i) mission denominational effects, (ii) role of female missionaries on long-term women's educ + agency. 👇🏿 https://t.co/ETKyFTX1fn

📕Book Presentation at #ESSHC23 on "Quantitative History and Uncharted People: Case Studies from the South African Past" @BloomsburyHist edited by @JohanFourieZA @LEAP_SU Contributions by Kate Ekama @MichieldeHaas @JonathanSchoots @Edkerby @kris_inwood Maphosa, Mbem, Links ...

We will be at the @CTCycleTour Expo to celebrate its 45th year and show off our latest kit and accessories. You can find us at stands 125 - 127. See you there. 🚴‍♀️🚴‍♂️⚡ #VyeTribe #itsaVYEb #cycling #roadcycling #ctct #ctcycletour #ctcycletour2023 #capetown

Here is a new paper from the Oxford Economic and Social History Working Papers by @Edkerby, @MoradiAlexander, and @UbuntR314 on “African time travellers: what can we learn from 500 years of written accounts?” https://t.co/lvHsYh7WSz @OAOxford #twitterstorians #econhist