Gothenburg, Sweden, 23-24 October, 2026

Gothenburg, Sweden, 23-24 October, 2026

Department of Historical Studies At the Department of Historical Studies, which belongs to the Faculty of

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It has been proposed that slave societies were the most unequal societies in recorded human history. What little previous evidence there is shows an ambiguous picture, with levels of wealth inequality...

Join the 2025 edition of the Tore Browaldh Lecture, where Nobel Laureate and Harvard Professor Claudia Goldin talks about women's societal and economical changes and impact.

2-3 PhD students in Economic History The Department of Economy and Society at the School of

Call for papers for the Economic History Workshop! The workshop will gather young researchers in a friendly and non-imposing environment where they can present their research and receive constructive ...

Abstract. In many slave societies, enslaved persons were barred from acquiring much education. What skills the enslaved persons nonetheless were able to ac

Department of Economy and Society, Unit for Economic History, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 16-17 May 2025 Local organiser: Svante Prado; Bart van Holstejin; Giulia Martini; Raisa Rubio Keynote…

Cambridge Core - Research Methods in Linguistics - Social Group Representation in a Diachronic News Corpus

The issue of how elites as a social group form, maintain their position, and influence the society they control is central to the debate on inequality…

Was there any redistribution of resources in the Caribbean societies after emancipation from slavery? What were formerly enslaved persons’ prospects to improve their socio-economic status like after ...

In this article, we discuss the sources employed and the methodological choices that entailed assembling a novel, individual-level, large panel dataset containing an incredible wealth of data for a...

Here is the schedule for the Higher seminar in Economic History during the academic year 23/24. Unless stated otherwise, the seminar takes place on Wednesdays between 12:00 and 13:00, in the conferenc...