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Oxford Economic & Social History @oxford-esh.bsky.social · Aug 8

Congratulations Ying Dai for winning the dissertation prize in World Economic History Congress 2025 in Lund for her DPhil research “the Occupational Structure of the Yangtze Valley in the Twentieth Century”! #econhistory #history

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Oxford Economic & Social History @oxford-esh.bsky.social · Jun 2

Last week we have Christopher Sims and Matteo Ruzzante @tgsatnu.bsky.social discussing their project on the introduction and diffusion of guano as a nitrogenous fertilizer in 19c England #econhist #history

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Oxford Economic & Social History @oxford-esh.bsky.social · May 26

Last week our own Yifei Liu presented his very exciting project on the multi-structural break analysis of China’s regional development from 1949 to 2022 #history #econhist

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Oxford Economic & Social History @oxford-esh.bsky.social · May 17

This week we have Jens Oehlen from Stockholm University sharing his super interesting project on the impact of the Allied breaking of the Nazi Enigma, providing the first data-driven analysis of WWII intelligence #econhist #history

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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · May 9

From the Sand Up: An Environmental and Demographic Explanation of the Economic, Legal and Political Structure of Arabia
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@oxford-esh.bsky.social working paper by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Senior Research Fellow Robert C. Allen

From the sand up: an environmental and demographic explanation of the economic, legal and political structure of Arabia - ORA - Oxford University Research Archive

The paper uses basic theories of Marx on social structure and Malthus on demography to explain many features of Arabia in terms of the arid environment. The focus is on traditional Arabia, but it is…

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Sheilagh Ogilvie @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social · May 16

A pleasure to talk about serfdom and my Leverhulme project yesterday at the Arthur Lewis Lab for Comparative Development. @oxford-esh.bsky.social @arthurlewislab.bsky.social @leverhulme.ac.uk #echist

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Oxford Economic & Social History @oxford-esh.bsky.social · May 8

Alyssa Rusonik @hecparis.bsky.social who’s now visiting
@nuffieldcollege.bsky.social led this week’s seminar discussing her project “institutional commitment and economic revival: evidence from palace-building in renaissance Rome”

#econhist #history

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Oxford Economic & Social History @oxford-esh.bsky.social · May 3

This week, Monique Rieske @humboldtuni.bsky.social kicks off our Wednesday seminar series this term with her project on the effects of the Nazis’s violent Fight for Berlin in attracting support and quelling opposition #econhist #history

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Oxford Economic & Social History @oxford-esh.bsky.social · May 1

Congratulations to Jem Ruf and Yunyufei Luo @yunyufeiluo.bsky.social
for winning this year’s Thirsk Prize for best MSc and MPhil dissertation!

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Sheilagh Ogilvie @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social · Apr 28

What does history tell us about trade barriers to favour domestic interest-groups? On guilds and trade in medieval Europe, check out this BBC series, broadcast again this week. @BBCRadio4 @OxfordESH @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social #echist www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

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Oxford Economic & Social History @oxford-esh.bsky.social · Apr 16

Congratulations to our DPhil student Louis Henderson, now a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow @lseechist.bsky.social
who’s awarded this year’s Thirsk-Feinstein Dissertation Prize in the Economic History Society annual conference 2025 in Glasgow #econhist

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Rebecca Simson @rebeccasimson.bsky.social · Apr 2

My contribution to the AEHN open access textbook on African economic history is out! Africa’s Lost Decades, 1974-1994 www.aehnetwork.org/textbook/afr...

Africa’s Lost Decades, 1974-1994 – African Economic History Network

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Sheilagh Ogilvie @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social · Apr 3

Wonderful audience today for “Controlling Contagion” at the Oxford Literary Festival @PrincetonUPress @oxford-esh.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social

Dr Emily Vincent @dremilyvincent.bsky.social · Apr 3

A great talk this morning from @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social as part of the Oxford Literary Festival on her new book ‘Controlling Contagion’ in which she examines economic and institutional responses to pandemics across the last 700 years 🦠 😷

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Sabine Schneider @sabineschneider.bsky.social · Mar 28

Great conference on cross-border payments at St Hilda’s College, Oxford! Thank you for two days of engaging presentations and a fantastic keynote by Linda Goldberg (FRB New York) on global liquidity flows @oxford-esh.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social
#econhist #EconSky #GloCoBank

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Oxford Economic & Social History @oxford-esh.bsky.social · Mar 27

We are also inviting applications for a 2-year full-time Departmental Lecturer in Economic and Social History at @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social Applications should be submitted online and before noon Wednesday 23 April - details below! #econhist #history

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Departmental Lecturer in Economic and Social History

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Oxford Economic & Social History @oxford-esh.bsky.social · Mar 27

We are inviting applications for Associate Professorship in Economic and Social History, Faculty of History and All Souls College, Oxford. Deadline for applications is 23 April 2025 - see the link below for more job and application info!

#econhist #history #oxford

Sheilagh Ogilvie @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social · Mar 26

JOB OPPORTUNITY: Associate Professorship in Economic and Social History, Faculty of History and All Souls College, Oxford. Deadline for applications 23 April 2025. @oxford-esh.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

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Oxford Economic & Social History @oxford-esh.bsky.social · Mar 25

Check out the new book by our own @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social @oxhistoryfaculty.bsky.social
who gives a wide-ranging and compelling account of human experience in epidemic control from the Black Death to Covid, looked at from a specific angle: institutions, critically #econhist #history

Sheilagh Ogilvie @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social · Mar 18

Any advice for someone waking up in 1348 to find the Black Death had arrived? How much did it change by 2020? Some ideas in “Controlling Contagion” - out today in Europe. @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Controlling Contagion

How human institutions—markets, states, communities, religions, guilds and families—have helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics throughout history.

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Sheilagh Ogilvie @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social · Mar 19

“Leave fast. Go far away. Come back slowly.” Was “Cito, Longe, Tarde” the only way of controlling contagion? A few answers at the Oxford Literary Festival on 3 April @princetonupress.bsky.social oxfordliteraryfestival.org/literature-e...

Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid | Oxford Literary Festival

Sheilagh Ogilvie - Controlling Contagion: Epidemics and Institutions from the Black Death to Covid

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Nuffield College Library @nuffieldlibrary.bsky.social · Feb 26

Do Economic Warfare and Sanctions Work? Three Centuries of Evidence
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@warwickecon.bsky.social research paper by @nuffieldcollege.bsky.social Fellow Stephen Broadberry and Mark Harrison #EconSky #NuffSky

Do Economic Warfare and Sanctions Work? Three Centuries of E

We draw lessons from three centuries of economic warfare and sanctions. Establishing cause and effect is difficult because much else was typically changing during periods of conflict. Unintended conse

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Sheilagh Ogilvie @sheilaghogilvie.bsky.social · Jan 11

Happy to say my new book, “Controlling Contagion”, comes out next month. 700 years of tackling pandemics. Not all bad news…

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Controlling Contagion

How human institutions—markets, states, communities, religions, guilds and families—have helped both to control and to exacerbate epidemics throughout history.

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LSE Inequalities @lseinequalities.bsky.social · Feb 5

How have Black middle class South Africans and Kenyans come to share in the wealth stock of their nations since colonial rule and Apartheid? @rebeccasimson.bsky.social explores in our latest blog post #LSEInequalitiesBlog

Black middle class wealth in South Africa and Kenya

Those coming from Black middle class backgrounds in South Africa and Kenya were prevented from owning many types of assets under colonial rule and Apartheid. How have these groups come to share in …

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Oxford Economic & Social History @oxford-esh.bsky.social · Mar 14

Happy to announce our new home here! Thanks for following us for economic and social history updates!

#econhistory #econhist #oxford #history #economics

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