Economic History Society

Joined March 2014
How can AI help (or hinder) historical research? Join us at UCL on 30 October for the EHS Women’s Committee Training Event, featuring a roundtable and a collaborative hackathon using real historical sources and datasets. Free to attend and open to all. To book:
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Keep up to date on the latest work of the Women’s Committee of the Economic History Society by following @WComEHS
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Application deadline approaching! The deadline for the EHS Research Fund for Graduate Students is 1 November The EHS considers applications for grants up to £1,000 to help postgraduate students gather research data & source materials, including travel and accommodation expenses
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New Data Prize! Application Deadline 1 December 2026. The EHS is pleased to offer a new biennial prize for outstanding contributions to creating, compiling, and sharing data and information in economic history. #EHS100 Further info and to apply: ehs.org.uk/award/data-prize/
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The data or information that are the focus of the contribution must have been made freely available to be considered for the prize.
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You can self-nominate or nominate others. Nominations should include a description of the data set, its significance, and its dissemination (max. 1,000 words).
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How has unemployment in the UK changed over the past 100 years? Meredith Paker considers this as part of a series of articles in the Economics Observatory exploring economic and social changes since 1926, to mark the centenary of the EHS. economicsobservatory.com/how…
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Finally, we are increasingly recognising that cyclical and structural unemployment interact and that worker reallocation across industries during economic downturns shapes aggregate unemployment.
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