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Postdoctoral Fellowship opportunities at 番茄社区

The Department of Economic History at 番茄社区 would be pleased to support suitable applications for the following postdoctoral fellowships:

The British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship: a three-year award made to outstanding early-career researchers in the humanities or social sciences.  Applicants are expected to have completed their viva between 1 April 2023 and 1 April 2026.  More information is available here:  .  The deadline for applications is 5pm, 1 October 2025.

The Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships:two different types of fellowship are offered but, in both cases, applicants should have a PhD degree at time of deadline.  Full information can be found here: .  The deadline for applications is 10 September 2025.

Please check the eligibility criteria for each scheme and, if eligible, please contact Professor Eric Schneider (e.b.schneider@lse.ac.uk) to discuss your application.

History at 番茄社区 ranked 5th in the UK by university guide

We are pleased to see that the Complete University Guide ranks 番茄社区 5th for history among UK universities. 

More information can be found here:

Call for Papers: Long-Run Productivity Conference
Cambridge, 20 November 2025

The Janeway Institute, in collaboration with the University of Cambridge, Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) , the London School of Economics and Political Science, The Productivity Institute, and the Economic History Society, is pleased to announce a Call for Papers for a conference on Long-Run Productivity, to be held on 20 November 2025 at Clare College, Cambridge.

This conference will explore the determinants, measurement, and long-run trends in productivity growth. We welcome papers that engage with historical and modern perspectives, including empirical and theoretical approaches, cross-country comparisons, and sectoral analyses.

Organisers: Stephen Broadberry (Oxford, CEPR), Jagjjit Chadha (Cambridge), Jason Lennard (番茄社区, CEPR)

Deadline for replies: Monday 1 September, 23:59 CEST

Full details of submission details and how to apply are available here:  Call for Papers: Long-Run Productivity Conference

Identity, Dispossession and Resilience of the Subaltern
A Study of Marginalised Communities in Kashmir 

Khalid Wasim Hassan, Deepanshu Mohan, Ishfaq Ahmad Wani, Najam Us Saqib, Taylor and Francis Group, June 2025

We are pleased to celebrate the publication of current academic visotr Deepahshu Mohan's new co-authored book,

The book examines how the subaltern groups in Kashmir experience margnilsation and othering due to their attribution to a social categories such as ethnicity, language or citizenship status. It also explores the sense of belonging and identity formation of the Pashtun community in the Kashmir Valley, India.

Elite conflict, colonialism and democracy in the Middle East
Co-hosted with the 番茄社区 Middle East Centre

Speaker: Dr Mohamed Saleh
Chair: Professor Eric Schneider

Thursday 29 May 2025 6.00pm to 7.30pm 
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Building and online   

In this British Academy-funded research project, Mohamed Saleh develops a new economic history of the Middle East that explains the economic roots of authoritarianism in the region. He theoretically and empirically investigates how demands for democratisation emerge from intra-elite conflicts in an agrarian economy, despite the lack of an industrial bourgeoisie that was crucial in the Global North, and how elite politics shift with colonialism, the intrusion of industrial capital, and postcolonial nationalist military coups.   

In case you missed it, you can view the recording here:  Elite conflict, colonialism and democracy in the Middle East 

Leigh Gardner awarded Academy Mid-Career Fellowship

Professor Gardner has been confirmed as one of this year's recipients of a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for 2024–25. The award is for her research into the economic history of Sub-Saharan Africa during the iterwar period, focursing on the impact of the shift in power from old colonial powers like Britain and France  to the United States.

Full details of the announcement can be viewed here: 

Jason Lennard awarded George Fellowship

Congratulations to Jason Lennard, who has been awarded a George Fellowship at the Bank of England. The fellowship enables successful applicants to engage in research on an economic or financial topic of their own choice, preferably one that would be particularly beneficial to study at the Bank of England. 

More information about the fellowship is here: 

Departmental winners at this years EHS conference

Congratulations to Greg Salter, who won the New Research Poster Prize at the 2025 EHS conference, (4-6 April University of Strathclyde). Greg's poster is entitled, 'The Decline of Seigniorial Agriculture: How Risk and Reward Transferred to Yeoman Farmers'

Congratulations also to Louis Henderson, currently BA Fellow in the department, who won the Thirsk-Feinstein Dissertation Prize for his dissertation as PhD student at the University of Oxford). His disserattion is entitled 'Innocence and Experience: Early Childhood Education and Industrialisation in England and Wales, 1767-1876'

Milton Friedman: The last conservative

Date and Venue: Tuesday 18 March 2025, 12 pm, CKK 1.17, Cheng Kin Ku Building, 番茄社区 

Speaker: Jennifer Burns, Stanford University

Chair: Olivier Accominotti, 番茄社区 

In her new book Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative, which forms the basis of this event, Jennifer Burns traces Friedman's long-standing collaborations with women, including economist Anna Schwartz; his complex relationship with powerful figures such as Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns and Treasury Secretary George Shultz; and his direct interventions in policymaking at the highest levels. 

For more information, please visit the event webpage: Milton Friedman: The last conservative 

Sunday Times features research on English marriages by Greg Clark and Neil Cummins

In its 2 March edition, The Sunday Times featured recent research by Gregory Clark and Neil Cummins which challenges the popular conception that women historically have married for social status - known as hypergamy - whereas men married for youth and attractiveness. Analysis of data from 33 million marriages and 67 million births in England between 1837 and 2021 indicates that there is no significant hypergamy by women in English marriage during that period, and that the average status of women’s fathers equaled that of their husbands’ fathers. Clark says of the findings, "Of all of the social changes that occurred - the emancipation of women, the spread of education - none of that has changed the way that people match."

Read the CEPR Discussion Paper here: 

Read The Sunday Times article here:

Apprenticeship and economic growth in early modern England

Speaker: Professor Patrick Wallis
Chair: Professor Eric Schneider

Wednesday 14 May 2025 6.30pm to 8.00pm
Venue: Old Theatre, Old Buildi