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Kris Inwood
@kris-inwood.bsky.social
Economic historian @UoGuelph w broad social science & historical interests: population health, First Nations demography, mobility, inequality & lives of the incarcerated 🇨🇦🇦🇺🇳🇿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
Editing Asia-Pacific Econ History Rev & directing https://thecanadianpeoples.com.
George Alter & Sam Williamson discuss the 1st pensions for Pennsylvania RR workers at the 50th anniversary SSHA meeting. Men in strenuous occupations often shifted to less demanding jobs as they aged. Late retirees lived longer. Locomotive engineers & conductors were well paid for travelling work.
November 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Participants at the 50th meeting of the Social Science History Association take a moment to remember the great Andrew Beveridge. Steve Ruggles, Margo Anderson and Vernon Burton led the appreciation!
www.gc.cuny.edu/news/memoria...
November 22, 2025 at 4:29 AM
Nobel laureate Professor Joel Mokyr drew on Peter Laslett, Jack Goody & the European marriage pattern to ground his new vision for “The Great Reversal and the Industrial Revolution”, a plenary address to the 8th Asian Historical Economics Conference, December 10 2024 at Hong Kong Univ www.cqh.hku.hk
October 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Tirthankar Roy's ‘Water and Development: The Troubled Economic History of the Arid Tropics’ will be published on 4 June from OUP USA, rest of the world in Sept. A new reading of the economic history of arid and semi-arid regions of the world, mainly in Asia and Africa.
global.oup.com/academic/pro...
May 31, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Ian Keay w coauthors Bill Dorval & David Rosé tell the Cdn Eco Ass abt the dismal economic status & lifetime trajectories of children taken from their British families & transported to Canada 1869-1921
Children are linked to 1921 & compared to children who migrated with their families
📉📈🗃📜🍎 #history
May 30, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The nitrogen revolution via imported guano led English farmers to reallocate production toward nitrogen-demanding, more profitable crops, according to Chris Sims & Matteo Ruzzante at CEA2025. Impact was greatest in low prody areas & on heavy soils that could be improved by drainage innovation!
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May 30, 2025 at 2:51 PM
At the CEA 2025 meeting Jevan Cherniwchan presents an estimate with Juan Moreno-Cruz suggesting that the increase of English population as a result of coal utilization is discernible earlier than recognized by the literature because of ... dissolution of the monasteries!
📉📈🗃📗 🍎 #history
May 30, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Trade dispute settled! Speedy action by two prime ministers has resolved the great Vegemite controversy & allowed the delightful Found Coffee once again to sell Vegemite in Canada. Congratulations to Leighton Walters. This is the way!

www.found.coffee
April 20, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Congratulations to Shao-yu Jheng, Hui-wen Koo & Kun-jung Wu whose paper "Property rights in a weak state: Evidence from land pawning in Qing Taiwan 1683–1895" won the Sir Timothy Coghlan Prize for best paper in the 2024 Asia-Pacific Econ History Rev
doi.org/10.1111/aehr...
🍎📉📈🗃 #history #AcademicSky
February 21, 2025 at 12:49 PM
“Gendered enterprise: Women & Australian business history”, 5 original research articles framed by a thoughtful introduction in a special issue of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review
doi.org/10.1111/aehr...
📉📈🗃📗 📜 #history #AcademicSky #sociology #gender
January 11, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Christmas comes early this year with “Gendered enterprise: Women & Australian business history”, 5 original research articles framed by a thoughtful introduction in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review
doi.org/10.1111/aehr...
📉📈🗃📗📜🍎 #history #Australia #AcademicSky #gendersky #polisky #sociology
December 22, 2024 at 12:19 AM
Louise Prowse argues that earnings from a ‘side hustle’ have been important for Australian rural women & rural communities much longer than has been appreciated. In the Asia-Pacific Econ Hist Rev special issue 'Gendered Enterprise: Women & Australian Business History'
doi.org/10.1111/aehr...
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December 19, 2024 at 5:14 PM
Joel Mokyr draws on Peter Laslett, Jack Goody and the European marriage pattern to ground his new vision for “The Great Reversal and the Industrial Revolution”, a plenary address to the 8th Asian Historical Economics Conference at Hong Kong Uni www.cqh.hku.hk
📉📈🗃🏺#history #AcademicSky #demography
December 12, 2024 at 3:27 AM
Professor Peter Turchin outlines a vision for evidence-based big history, “The Great Holocene Transformation: What Complexity Science Tells Us about the Evolution of Complex Societies”, a plenary address to the 8th Asian Historical Economics Conference at Hong Kong University www.cqh.hku.hk
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December 9, 2024 at 11:43 PM
Sascha Becker concludes his plenary address on religion an economic development with a discussion of religious revivals that highlights the important work of UBC Professor Matt Lowe on the Welsh revival 1904-1905
mattlowe.site
December 9, 2024 at 2:18 AM
Professor Sasha Becker opens the 8th Asian Historical Economics Conference at Hong Kong University’s Centre for Quantitative History www.cqh.hku.hk with a dynamic plenary address on “Religion and Economic Development: Past, Present, Future”
📉📈🗃🏺📗 📜 #history #AcademicSky
December 9, 2024 at 1:48 AM
Outgoing SSHA President Lisa Dillon delivers her presidential address in Toronto on the important new literature about source criticism in a digital age of trust and distrust of historical sources.
November 2, 2024 at 10:35 PM
Danielle Gauvreau discusses fertility of American, French- & English-Cdn women & net migration into Mtl, today @ Trois siècles de migrations francophones en Amérique du Nord workshop migrationsfrancophones.ustboniface.ca at Université de Saint-Boniface in Winnipeg
🗃 #history #AcademicSky #demography
September 28, 2024 at 1:56 AM
Staff personnel files & the confidential assessment of candidates inform Alex Millmow’s surprising account of the appointment of John McCarty to the ill-fated chair of economic history at Monash Uni
New in the Asia-Pacific Econ Hist Rev!
📉📈🗃📗📜 #history #AcademicSky #polisky
doi.org/10.1111/aehr...
August 1, 2024 at 1:21 PM
Sadly leaving Edinburgh after a productive and enjoyable two months. Just in time to miss the Festival crowds!
July 30, 2024 at 6:38 AM
Simon Chapple argues in the 2024 Asia-Pacific EcHR that pre-contact Māori population was larger than currently estimated, implying a more catastrophic population decline in NZ's colonial era
doi.org/10.1111/aehr...
🌐📉📈🗃🏺📗📜🍎 #geosky #demography #NZ #Kikorangi #SkyBack #nzpol #AcademicSky #sociology
June 26, 2024 at 4:22 PM
Nineteen years later she is the only woman in the Yuma prison of Arizona Territory
June 24, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Bandit queen Pearl Hart - possibly living in Orillia Ontario 1881 as Lilly Davey, age 10, father a labourer, mother of French origin, attending school but likely not for long (elder siblings were not in school).
June 24, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Volunteer Louise Pengelley shows a page from the 1638 Mercator Atlas to delegates of the Societies of Antiquaries of Ireland and Scotland today at @innerpeffray.bsky.social , the UK’s oldest lending library - established 1680!
innerpeffraylibrary.co.uk

🗃📜📗🏺 #history #histsci #geo #books
June 22, 2024 at 10:51 PM
Only 5 days remaining. Nominations close June 20 for best dissertation in Asia-Pacific Economic History!
June 14, 2024 at 8:29 PM