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Judy Stephenson

@judyzara.bsky.social
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Economic Historian of early modern world and labour markets and built stuff. Director of LRI. Prof at Bartlett School of Sustainable Construction UCL. Hon Sec of Economic History Society. FRHS

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Cléo Chassonnery-Zaïgouche @cleocz.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
We are very happy to launch the *Cambridge Elements in History of Economics series* The 1st Element *The Mathematisation of Economics* by Marcel Boumans is freely available online until 18 September! www.cambridge.org/core/publica...
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History of Economics
Welcome to Cambridge Core
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Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke @kevinhorourke.eurosky.social · 22/08/2026
On the Anglo-Irish economic war I wrote something about that decades ago: www.jstor.org/stable/2122580
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Client Challenge
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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
I missed this before. Very amusing Tenure Letter for the pre-Socratic philosopher Thales. www.mostlyaesthetics.com/p/lives-of-t...
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Lives of the Eminent Philosophers: Thales
To the promotions committee, this is my evaluation of Thales’ case for tenure.
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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This is a distressingly accurate summary of some things I think about money, and it seems to have been generated completely by an LLM from a podcast I did finance.biggo.com/news/386e4a7...
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Brendan Greeley: The Dollar’s Dominance Isn’t About American Power — It’s About Insured Deposits and Swap Lines — BigGo Finance
In early July, speculative bets that the US dollar will strengthen hit $400 billion, the highest in a decade. Yet the real story of the dollar’s…
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Richard Shaw @richardshaw.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
30 years ago I did a course on the geography of development and poverty. Two of the things I took from it. In a fairer world the UK and rest of the world standards of living would become much closer. If the UK's politics did not change it would happen in a way that is catastrophic for the UK.
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The English Historical Review @enghistrev.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
Judy Z Stephenson @judyzara.bsky.social reviews 'The Market for Skill: Apprenticeship and Economic Growth in Early Modern England', by Patrick Wallis @patrickwallis.bsky.social academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-... @princetonupress.bsky.social
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The Market for Skill: Apprenticeship and Economic Growth in Early Modern England, by Patrick Wallis
This book will be recognised for a generation or more as the definitive study of pre-industrial apprenticeship in England. It sets out to do so at the cent
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
'A school leaver in Barnstaple weighing up what to study this autumn can reach eight subject areas within 25 miles of home – three years ago it was 15. Their counterpart in London faces no such arithmetic, and that gap is the problem.' (Wonkhe Monday Briefing, accompanying Jim Dickinson's blog) 1/2
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The market may be working as intended – and that's the problem
Jim Dickinson tracks three years of course openings and closures across the Discover Uni dataset – and finds the losses concentrated in the places and subjects that had least to begin with
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Judy Stephenson @judyzara.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A brilliant book for all early modernists. Since its release a year ago, I have recommended to so many students who have used w joy @patrickwallis.bsky.social @echistsoc.bsky.social @lseechist.bsky.social
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 26/06/2026
Over the next week, we feature the 8 articles shortlisted for the Society's 2026 Early Career Article Prize. Today: 'Hong Kong Colonial Government Migrated Archives at Hanslope Park' by Matthew Hurst, bit.ly/4g7J60e published in the 'Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History' #Skystorians 1/2
Image the journal 'Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History' and text: 'Hong Kong Colonial Government Migrated Archives at Hanslope Park'

Matthew Hurst
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Royal Historical Society Early Career Article Prize, 2026
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
If you missed any of this year's Institute of Historical Research (IHR) British History in the Long 18th Century seminars and would like to catch up, the recordings are now available. We resume on 7 October. #Skystorians
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Videos and Podcasts
Listen again to our acclaimed seminar series, public talks and conferences from a wide range of general and specialised subjects within Institute of Historical Research
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Tony Yates @t0nyyates.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
Come to the next Bluesky drinks in North London Thurs 16 July 7pm if you are into Econ, politics, finance, law, science. DM me for the venue. 27 coming so far not counting the maybes.
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Judy Stephenson @judyzara.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
A hero of medieval and early modern history and economic history: John Hatcher. hist.cam.ac.uk/people/profess… Bullshit shuddered within 50 miles. Wit and knowledge gathered round. RIP. With great and profound sadness. @cwpeconhist.bsky.social @echistsoc.bsky.social @echistsocreview.bsky.social
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Judy Stephenson @judyzara.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I had a ball last autumn interviewing some of UCL’s most innovative and experienced researchers about how to do it well and what we should be worried about in the future. @uclpress.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
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Judy Stephenson @judyzara.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I had a ball last autumn interviewing some of UCL’s most innovative and experienced researchers about how to do it well and what we should be worried about in the future. @uclpress.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
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Judy Stephenson @judyzara.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
We’ll get some faster takes of that! Great to interview you, Danny!
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Economic History Society @echistsoc.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The 2026 Conference celebrated the Society’s 100th anniversary. New Researchers presented 20 posters. Real Protection: Tariffs, Prices, and Policy Inertia in Peru, 1900–1940: Evidence on the Determinants of Trade Policy in a Price-Driven Tariff System By Raisa Maria Rubio Cordova (Gothenburg)
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Judy Stephenson @judyzara.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
www.ft.com/content/e318... FMCG has no added value left. A long process since the mid 1990’s investment in brands and “innovation” has ended with the digital economy’s low barriers to entry wiping out margin.
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America’s ‘other’ economy tells a different growth story
Investors should pay attention to the struggles of the consumer packaged goods industry
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Judy Stephenson @judyzara.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
link.springer.com/book/10.1007... delighted to launch this historical casebook of wage formation with @giulio-ongaro.bsky.social and Luca Mocarelli. An amazing list of authors. A lovely project. Thank you @springernature.com
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A Historical Casebook of Wage Formation
This edited collection presents 16 new historical cases of wage formation and wage bargaining across the early modern and preindustrial world.
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Royal Historical Society @royalhistsoc.org · 09/05/2026
This week we launched the 2026 call the Society's annual Teaching Fellowships. Funds support innovative practice in history teaching in higher education bit.ly/4wbwoDb. Open to UK and international Fellows and Members of the Society. Closing date Friday 10 July 2026 #Skystorians 1/2
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Applications now invited for the Society's history Teaching Fellowships, 2026-27 - RHS
The Royal Historical Society's Jinty Nelson Teaching Fellowships are awarded annually to support innovative practice in UK higher education. The Society is pleased to open the call for Fellowships for...
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Was a member of one of these workshops earlier in the year and HIGHLY recommend it. At a time when so many institutions have stepped away from supporting Humanities research, here's an ace opportunity to have your History monograph enhanced or to contribute to that enhancement.
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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 04/05/2026
I’ve been procrastinating on scheduling an interview (or rather there aren’t enough hours in the day and days in the week) and now they went and got the Pulitzer and everyone’s gonna be in their inbox. Lesson, children: when someone says yes to your podcast, schedule it for today!
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
If you're in Belfast at 5pm today, pop over to the Lanyon Building at QUB for Mark Drumbl's British Academy lecture on Child Soldiers: Coming of Age in Atrocity. Free and open to the public. #Skystorians
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Lecture: Child Soldiers: Coming of Age in Atrocity
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Isabelle Roughol @isabelleroughol.com · 21/04/2026
Here you have in a few short years the complete destruction of an entire industry, tens of thousands of people having to reinvent their way of life, and an unprecedented transfer of wealth to powerful plutocrats. And women got screwed. www.broadhistory.com/the-gender-p...
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The gender pension gap of 1539, or how women got screwed by the Dissolution of Monasteries
Don't work but don't get married and don't count on a living pension
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Judy Stephenson @judyzara.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Holy cow, this goes much further than I thought one would need to to explain monopsony power in the labour market but .. it’s not entirely inaccurate theoretically even though it really is historically 🤭 www.npr.org/sections/pla...
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The labor economics of 'Alien' — and its lessons for inequality on Earth
Behind the acid blood and jump scares of the Alien franchise is an even more insidious horror: a single employer with unchecked power. How Weyland-Yutani helps explain monopsony — and the rise of ineq...
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Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke @kevinhorourke.eurosky.social · 15/04/2026
www.usccb.org/news/2026/us...
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U.S. Bishops’ Chairman on Doctrine Issues Clarification on Just War Theory
“When Pope Leo XIV speaks as supreme pastor of the universal Church, he is not merely offering opinions on theology, he is preaching the Gospel and exercis...
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American Historical Association @historians.org · 14/04/2026
We need historians because evidence doesn’t explain itself. Context does not simply exist. It is built through research, interpretation, and critical analysis. What stories have you uncovered in the historical record? #TalkAboutHumanities 🗃️
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Brendan Greeley @bhgreeley.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
The real question: which book about dominant currencies will be the dominant currency book?
Four current books about the dollar, all in a row
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Alan Beattie @alanbeattie.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
I believe in a multipolar system of books about currencies and suggest a literary festival be convened in Bretton Woods to design it.
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Full-funded (home or international) collaborative PhD studentship (Kew and Royal Holloway, University of London) available. Deadline 8 May. Topic: ‘Just acquisitions? Law and ethics over time in Kew’s overseas plant collecting history’ #Skystorians
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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This is absolutely pathetic. A cultural sector colluding in state censorship because it can’t afford to do its printing in a democratic country.
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V&A censored catalogues after demands by Chinese printer
Exclusive: Victoria and Albert Museum has deleted maps and images deemed sensitive by Beijing censors from exhibition publications
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Emily Maher @emily-maher.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Delighted to have presented my paper on Hampshire's peasant women and land, c.1300-c.1400, at the New Researcher sessions for #ehs100! I've really enjoyed all the other papers I've heard this weekend, everyone's doing such fascinating research.
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Dr Victoria Bateman @vnbateman.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Huge thanks to @echistsoc.bsky.social and especially @ericbschneider.bsky.social @judyzara.bsky.social @patrickwallis.bsky.social @alkaraman.bsky.social and Maureen Galbraith for a weekend of stimulating research, discussion, debate & conversations #EHS100
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Judy Stephenson @judyzara.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Morgan Kelly’s Tawney just stuck a bomb under 20 famous historical economics papers, #EHS100 but persistence persists. What to do? ask historians…. Simples TELL HISTORY BETTER. Make it gripping, make it compelling. @echistsoc.bsky.social
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Mauricio Drelichman @mdrelichman.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
Congratulations to Sara Benetti from @ubcvse.bsky.social, winner of the @echistsoc.bsky.social New Researcher Prize for her paper on the social consequences of technological change! economics.ubc.ca/profile/sara...
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Sara Benetti - Vancouver School of Economics
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Judy Stephenson @judyzara.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
@ehswomcom.bsky.social @echistsoc.bsky.social Amy Erickson recalls before email, before mobiles, (before data protection!) compiling the Directory of Women in Economic & Social History
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Judy Stephenson @judyzara.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
@ehswomcom.bsky.social our session at the @echistsoc.bsky.social #EHS100 is a study of how unity around shared interests mitigates compound discrimination. Hats off to @alkaraman.bsky.social for a great panel
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Kevin Hjortshøj O’Rourke @kevinhorourke.eurosky.social · 11/04/2026
Learned societies and academies, and their journals, need to take a stand. We need to make it clear that we expect our authors to be able to read (the references they cite) and write (the articles they claim to have authored).
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Judy Stephenson @judyzara.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
#EHS100 London, Oxford, Cambridge … and Utrecht … but it doesn’t feel like that this weekend. Almost 400 economic historians from all over ! Doing EH 😍
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Thales ZP @thaleszp.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
What began as a lecture on the field's evolution is turning into a paper. An animation mapping the affiliations of over 3,000 authors published in the EHR over the last century (Latin America is the most underrepresented region). @echistsocreview.bsky.social @echistsoc.bsky.social
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Judy Stephenson @judyzara.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
The hard part of this weekend is the retirement of Maureen Galbraith who has served the Society for 28 years. Read an interview with her here files.ehs.org.uk/wp-content/u...
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Judy Stephenson @judyzara.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Good luck to all our New Researchers ! #EHS100
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Bram Hilkens @bramhilkens.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
Excellent work by Marcus, super interesting for historians working on wealth, consumption, and living standards!
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Bram Hilkens @bramhilkens.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Very much looking forward to the #EHS100 at the LSE this weekend! Now let’s hope I finish my presentation in time.
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Judy Stephenson @judyzara.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
This weekend the Economic History Society @echistsoc.bsky.social begins its centenary celebrations at @lseechist.bsky.social. #EHS100 Our conferences ARE what we do: New research; new researchers; debate; recognition of outstanding work; support.
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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Really well-argued piece - great to see MPs actually using longform to make serious arguments that aren't just voter-babble. I like trams, and I think we should build more of them, because I am an anti-car urbanist who thinks trams make for more liveable cities because they're car killers. But 🧵
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Judy Stephenson @judyzara.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
longruninstitute.com is delighted to sponsor doctoral students to attend @echistsoc.bsky.social Centenary conference. Here’s the programme ! @profjohnturner.bsky.social ehs.org.uk/conference/2...
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Annual Conference 2026 - Provisional Programme - Economic History Society
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Fully-funded AHRC Collaborative Doctoral PhD Studentship at UCL and the V&A: 'Invisible Hands: Migrant Labour and British Craft in the 18th Century' Ignore the 'top ten' hype; focus on the ace resources, environment and support. Deadline 15 April. #Skystorians
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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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Judy Stephenson @judyzara.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
@jemima.bsky.social giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... An intergenerational vibe like 1920s well to do well educated flappers fearing they would never have the assets and the grandeur of their fin de sielce grandmothers making a whole new world ! Fab !
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Can Jemima Kelly recreate Martha Stewart’s mythic midnight dinner party?
Thirty guests. 111 eggs. A one-bed flat. A fearless host attempts the impossible omelette supper of her dreams
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Judy Stephenson @judyzara.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
@vnbateman.bsky.social I reviewed Economica for the @echistsocreview.bsky.social onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/.... It’s great! Thoroughly enjoyed it, and here I say why we need to take this long run view of women in economic activity very seriously
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