Judy Stephenson
@judyzara.bsky.social
Economic Historian of early modern world and labour markets and built stuff. Prof at Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction UCL. Hon Sec of Economic History Society. FRHS
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Now on BlueSky, The International Earl Engine Conference (IEEC) can update on progress for our March 2026 Conference in Bristol (IEEC4). The proposed papers have been updated, but the call continues until the end of Oct 2025! #HistSci #Newcomen #IEEC4
www.earlyengines.org/ieec4-fourth...
www.earlyengines.org/ieec4-fourth...
IEEC4 – Fourth International Early Engines Conference
Location The Fourth International Early Engines Conference (IEEC4), will take place 20th-22nd March 2026, in and around Bristol, United Kingdom. The format will be similar to previous IEECs, including...
www.earlyengines.org
September 29, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Now on BlueSky, The International Earl Engine Conference (IEEC) can update on progress for our March 2026 Conference in Bristol (IEEC4). The proposed papers have been updated, but the call continues until the end of Oct 2025! #HistSci #Newcomen #IEEC4
www.earlyengines.org/ieec4-fourth...
www.earlyengines.org/ieec4-fourth...
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DRAFT: A Small, Intensive, Data-Sciencey Seminar in Long-Run Economic History
I have decided on my teaching next semester: two things that are half-courses (half of grad student intro to economic history, and the economic-history outside-speakers seminar)…
braddelong.substack.com/p/draft-a-sm...
I have decided on my teaching next semester: two things that are half-courses (half of grad student intro to economic history, and the economic-history outside-speakers seminar)…
braddelong.substack.com/p/draft-a-sm...
DRAFT: A Small, Intensive, Data-Sciencey Seminar in Long-Run Economic History
I have decided on my teaching next semester: two things that are half-courses (half of grad student intro to economic history, and the economic-history outside-speakers seminar), and this 25...
braddelong.substack.com
September 17, 2025 at 11:46 PM
DRAFT: A Small, Intensive, Data-Sciencey Seminar in Long-Run Economic History
I have decided on my teaching next semester: two things that are half-courses (half of grad student intro to economic history, and the economic-history outside-speakers seminar)…
braddelong.substack.com/p/draft-a-sm...
I have decided on my teaching next semester: two things that are half-courses (half of grad student intro to economic history, and the economic-history outside-speakers seminar)…
braddelong.substack.com/p/draft-a-sm...
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Cannot recommend this highly enough for PhD students, having benefitted from the residential training course myself several years ago!
The @echistsoc.bsky.social ‘s PhD residential training course literally changes careers for the better… apply here ehs.org.uk/society/stud...
Residential Training Course for Postgraduate Students - Economic History Society
University of Warwick Radcliffe Conference Centre 3 – 6 December 2025 The Economic History Society offers 12 part-funded places on an intensive residential course designed to raise the quality and ana...
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August 20, 2025 at 7:16 AM
Cannot recommend this highly enough for PhD students, having benefitted from the residential training course myself several years ago!
The @echistsoc.bsky.social ‘s PhD residential training course literally changes careers for the better… apply here ehs.org.uk/society/stud...
Residential Training Course for Postgraduate Students - Economic History Society
University of Warwick Radcliffe Conference Centre 3 – 6 December 2025 The Economic History Society offers 12 part-funded places on an intensive residential course designed to raise the quality and ana...
ehs.org.uk
August 19, 2025 at 9:18 PM
The @echistsoc.bsky.social ‘s PhD residential training course literally changes careers for the better… apply here ehs.org.uk/society/stud...
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Now on the Long Run Blog:
'Investigating U.S. Imperialism in Haiti through its Railways, 1909-1934'.
Georgia Davison of the University of 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.
'Investigating U.S. Imperialism in Haiti through its Railways, 1909-1934'.
Georgia Davison of the University of 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.
July 2, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Now on the Long Run Blog:
'Investigating U.S. Imperialism in Haiti through its Railways, 1909-1934'.
Georgia Davison of the University of 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.
'Investigating U.S. Imperialism in Haiti through its Railways, 1909-1934'.
Georgia Davison of the University of 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.
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Employing village-level data from the Ottoman tax registers of 1468/1604, this article finds that settlements with lower income per household were more likely to convert. It hypothesizes the poll tax stimulated the poorer Bosnians to adopt Islam upon the Ottoman conquest of their region.
July 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Employing village-level data from the Ottoman tax registers of 1468/1604, this article finds that settlements with lower income per household were more likely to convert. It hypothesizes the poll tax stimulated the poorer Bosnians to adopt Islam upon the Ottoman conquest of their region.
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Now on Early View: 'Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia'.
By Leonard Kukić & Yasin Arslantas.
@yasinarslantas.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
By Leonard Kukić & Yasin Arslantas.
@yasinarslantas.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library
Whilst economic historians have invested substantial effort into understanding the economic consequences of religion, they have invested less effort into understanding the determinants of religious a...
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July 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Now on Early View: 'Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia'.
By Leonard Kukić & Yasin Arslantas.
@yasinarslantas.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
By Leonard Kukić & Yasin Arslantas.
@yasinarslantas.bsky.social @univie.ac.at
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The District Line IS www.savewimbledonpark.org this morning. Godspeed.
Home | Save Wimbledon Park
Learn about Save Wimbledon Park - a campaign to save this Grade II Heritage, Capability Brown Designed, Metropolitan Open Land from over development by the AELTC Wimbledon Park Project.
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July 8, 2025 at 6:47 AM
The District Line IS www.savewimbledonpark.org this morning. Godspeed.
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Thousands of other similarly ill-thought out decisions, concerning everything from vaccinations to infection control, fly under the radar. We are well past peak health, and on our way to becoming a sicker society.
June 13, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Thousands of other similarly ill-thought out decisions, concerning everything from vaccinations to infection control, fly under the radar. We are well past peak health, and on our way to becoming a sicker society.
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Our working paper is out!
Historians always bristle at deterministic economic models (regressions) for predicting historical data… so … ta dah… @mmpaker.bsky.social and @patrickwallis.bsky.social and I took the biggest data set and predicted it by machine learning instead www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His... !
www.lse.ac.uk
June 16, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Our working paper is out!
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Now on Early View: 'Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics'.
By Theocharis N. Grigoriadis & Alise Vitola.
@theocharisgr.bsky.social @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
By Theocharis N. Grigoriadis & Alise Vitola.
@theocharisgr.bsky.social @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
<em>The Economic History Review</em> | EHS Journal | Wiley Online Library
In this study, we explore the long-run effects of Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Using a robust regression discontinuity design, we identify persistent differen...
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June 16, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Now on Early View: 'Shades of empire: Evidence from Swedish and Polish–Lithuanian partitions in the Baltics'.
By Theocharis N. Grigoriadis & Alise Vitola.
@theocharisgr.bsky.social @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
By Theocharis N. Grigoriadis & Alise Vitola.
@theocharisgr.bsky.social @osteuropainstitut.bsky.social @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Now on here 🥳! The 99 1/2 year old best economic history Society in the world ;)
Welcome to the Economic History Society's Bluesky account. Stay tuned for updates from the Economic History Review and the society's Long Run blog, as well as for information about our annual conference, fellowships and grants!
June 16, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Now on here 🥳! The 99 1/2 year old best economic history Society in the world ;)
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There's so much in here that historians can tear apart, but I'd like to point to just one bit of specious comparison: a brief reference to indexing.
This is some bleak shit. Historians literally outsourcing the creative and research process to a thieving algorithm ripping off the IP of their own fellow-historians.
Says everything that they’re doing it from a Google office.
Hacks. They should be ashamed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...
Says everything that they’re doing it from a Google office.
Hacks. They should be ashamed.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...
A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.
www.nytimes.com
June 16, 2025 at 10:55 AM
There's so much in here that historians can tear apart, but I'd like to point to just one bit of specious comparison: a brief reference to indexing.
Historians always bristle at deterministic economic models (regressions) for predicting historical data… so … ta dah… @mmpaker.bsky.social and @patrickwallis.bsky.social and I took the biggest data set and predicted it by machine learning instead www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His... !
www.lse.ac.uk
June 16, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Historians always bristle at deterministic economic models (regressions) for predicting historical data… so … ta dah… @mmpaker.bsky.social and @patrickwallis.bsky.social and I took the biggest data set and predicted it by machine learning instead www.lse.ac.uk/Economic-His... !
A reminder of this evening’s Aaron Graham lecture from Professor Pat Hudson. Supported by the Economic History Society and UCL History. @patrickwallis.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
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June 10, 2025 at 7:07 AM
A reminder of this evening’s Aaron Graham lecture from Professor Pat Hudson. Supported by the Economic History Society and UCL History. @patrickwallis.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social
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It’s publication day. Available from wherever you prefer to buy your books/ebooks/audiobooks.
June 5, 2025 at 7:08 AM
It’s publication day. Available from wherever you prefer to buy your books/ebooks/audiobooks.
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Exciting new book to buy
It’s publication day. Available from wherever you prefer to buy your books/ebooks/audiobooks.
June 5, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Exciting new book to buy
My dept has a big opening for a school manager www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
www.ucl.ac.uk
May 28, 2025 at 6:52 AM
My dept has a big opening for a school manager www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...
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Professor Philip Schofield (Bentham Project, UCL Laws), Professor Judy Stephenson (UCL BSSC), and Dr Xine Yao (UCL English), feature in a new UCL Press Play documentary entitled 'The Greatest Good: Bentham’s Defence of Sexual Liberty'. 📺👇
youtu.be/ZndE5GhlX1I?...
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The Greatest Good: Bentham's Defence of Sexual Liberty
YouTube video by UCL Press
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October 7, 2024 at 3:09 PM
Professor Philip Schofield (Bentham Project, UCL Laws), Professor Judy Stephenson (UCL BSSC), and Dr Xine Yao (UCL English), feature in a new UCL Press Play documentary entitled 'The Greatest Good: Bentham’s Defence of Sexual Liberty'. 📺👇
youtu.be/ZndE5GhlX1I?...
youtu.be/ZndE5GhlX1I?...
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REMINDER: We offer bursaries of up to £500 per head to support UK-based postgraduate and early career researchers to arrange panels on London-related topics for academic conferences. See here for further details on how to apply (please repost to help spread the word!)
Conference Panel Bursary | The London Journal
The London Journal is eager to support early career scholars present their work on London at conferences and publish articles based on this work. To that end, the Journal is pleased to annouce a conference panel bursary.
www.thelondonjournal.org
May 20, 2025 at 9:43 AM
REMINDER: We offer bursaries of up to £500 per head to support UK-based postgraduate and early career researchers to arrange panels on London-related topics for academic conferences. See here for further details on how to apply (please repost to help spread the word!)
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If you are a senior woman in a male-dominated field and you’re about to do something public-facing, studies suggest you should silence the inner voice whispering that the audience might dismiss or discount your expertise, writes Sarah O'Connor www.ft.com/content/eda3...
May 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
If you are a senior woman in a male-dominated field and you’re about to do something public-facing, studies suggest you should silence the inner voice whispering that the audience might dismiss or discount your expertise, writes Sarah O'Connor www.ft.com/content/eda3...
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Submit an article to the Society's journal, Transactions. We welcome research articles and commentaries on historical debate / practice. Our journal covers all historical subjects, chronologies & geographies bit.ly/3OujmeL
Articles appear Open Access to ensure wide circulation #Skystorians 1/2
Articles appear Open Access to ensure wide circulation #Skystorians 1/2
May 21, 2025 at 6:41 AM
Submit an article to the Society's journal, Transactions. We welcome research articles and commentaries on historical debate / practice. Our journal covers all historical subjects, chronologies & geographies bit.ly/3OujmeL
Articles appear Open Access to ensure wide circulation #Skystorians 1/2
Articles appear Open Access to ensure wide circulation #Skystorians 1/2
For all BCPM0001 and 0083 students. The most elegant explanation you will find of the Coasian problem of social cost in a Real Estate setting @timleunig.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/timleuni...
The right to light
and the right to build
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May 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
For all BCPM0001 and 0083 students. The most elegant explanation you will find of the Coasian problem of social cost in a Real Estate setting @timleunig.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/timleuni...