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UK investment trust portfolio strategies before the first world war
by Janette Rutterford and Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos (The Open University Business School) The full article from this blog is forthcoming in the Economic History Review Mary Evans Picture Library UK...
View ArticleInequality dynamics in turbulent times
by María Gómez León (Instituto Figuerola/Universidad Carlos III, Madrid) and Herman J. de Jong (University of Groningen) Recent influential studies on the historical evolution of inequality and its...
View ArticleChild workers and industrial health in Britain 1780-1850
Peter Kirby, Child workers and industrial health in Britain 1780-1850 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2013. Pp. xi + 212. 8 tabs. 6 figs. ISBN 9781843838845 Pbk. £19.99) Review by Alysa Levene (Oxford...
View ArticleNineteenth century savings banks, their ledgers and depositors
by Linda Perriton (University of Stirling) If you look up as you walk along the streets of British towns and cities, you will see the proud and sometimes colourful traces of nineteenth century...
View ArticleHow the Bank of England managed the financial crisis of 1847
by Kilian Rieder (University of Oxford) What drives a central bank’s decision to grant or refuse liquidity provision during a financial crisis? How does the central bank manage counterparty risk during...
View ArticleSpinning the Industrial Revolution
by Jane Humphries (All Souls College, University of Oxford) and Benjamin Schneider (Merton College, University of Oxford) The full paper is published on The Economic History Review and is available...
View ArticleDelusions of competence: the near-death of Lloyd’s of London 1980-2002
by Robin Pearson (University of Hull) This paper was presented at the EHS Annual Conference 2019 in Belfast. Rapid structural change resulting from system collapse seems to be a less common...
View ArticleMedieval Clothiers and their workers: an early ‘gig’ economy?
by John S. Lee (University of York) The Medieval Clothier is published by Boydell Press. SAVE 25% when you order direct from the publisher – offer ends on the 31 March 2019. See below for details....
View ArticleWages in the Middle Ages
by Jordan Claridge (London School of Economics) Historical research on labour and wages has been an object of considerable attention for both industrial and post-industrial societies. Even in the...
View ArticleHow well off were the occupants of early modern almshouses?
by Angela Nicholls (University of Warwick). Almhouses in Early Modern England is published by Boydell Press. SAVE 25% when you order direct from the publisher – offer ends on the 13th December 2018....
View ArticleWheels of change: skill-biased factor endowments and industrialisation in...
by Joel Mokyr (Northwestern University), Assaf Sarid (Haifa University), Karine van der Beek (Ben-Gurion University) The main manifestation of an industrial revolution taking place in Britain in the...
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