Safe-haven asset: property speculation in medieval England
by Adrian Bell, Chris Brooks and Helen Killick (ICMA Centre, University of Reading) While we might imagine the medieval English property market to have been predominantly ‘feudal’ in nature and...
View ArticleBritish engineering skills in the age of steam
by Harry Kitsikopoulos (academic director, Unbound Prometheus) Engineering skills in Britain improved during the eighteenth century but progress was not linear. My research uses a novel approach to...
View ArticleSlavery in medieval England: broad continuation between the 12th and 17th...
by Judith Spicksley (University of York) Slavery in England had apparently been replaced by serfdom in the twelfth century, yet writers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries continue to use terms...
View ArticleOn archives, macroeconomics and labour markets
Everything (well,… most things) you know about wages 1650 -1800 is wrong. That’s a great opportunity for historians by Judy Stephenson (University of Oxford) My forthcoming paper in the Economic...
View ArticleThe Public Works Loan Board and the growth of the state in nineteenth century...
by Ian Webster The Public Works Loan Board was formed in 1817, when the government was faced with a stagnant economy and rising unemployment after the Napoleonic wars. It was established to lend money...
View ArticleLate Marriage as a Contributor to the Industrial Revolution in England
by James Foreman-Peck and Peng Zhou (Cardiff University) A central question of economics is why some nations experienced economic growth and are now rich, when others have not and are poor. We go some...
View ArticleModelling regional imbalances in English plebeian migration
by Adam Crymble (University of Hertfordshire) We often hear complaints of migrant groups negatively influencing British life. Grievances against them are many: migrants bring with them their...
View ArticleAre businessmen from Mars and businesswomen from Venus? An analysis of female...
by Jennifer Aston (Oxford University) and Paulo di Martino (University of Birmingham) The full paper was published on the Economic History Review, accessible here Do women and men trade in different...
View ArticleEHS 2018 special: Wine prices in Anglo-Gascon trade, c.1337-c.1460
Robert Blackmore (University of Southampton) Episodes of major market volatility are rarely out of the headlines today. Their ramifications, though considerable, are discussed as if these were somehow...
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Infant and child mortality by socioeconomic status in early nineteenth...
by Jaadla Hannaliis (University of Cambridge) The full article from this blog (co-authored with E. Potter, S. Keibek, and R.J. Davenport) was published on The Economic History Review and is now...
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