As they told their stories of much wanted pregnancies gone awry and their doctors’ inability to act, the women were overcome — one sobbed, another fled the courtroom, another threw up in her hands.

Texas Supreme Court says this is fine, law should stand:

texastribune.org/2024/05/31/tex…

Today’s book harvest #econhist

📢 Call for Submissions! Economic History Society's 3rd PhD Thesis Workshop, Sept 2024 via Zoom. Share thesis papers, gain feedback, build networks. Apply by May 31. Economic History Society #econhist #twitterstorians #PhDWorkshop

The round table “Inequality in Human Societies” just started !!
Great presenters and discussants at Università Bocconi Dondena Centre with Branko Milanovic Guido Alfani Zach Parolin presenting their recent books!

#inequality #econhist

👩‍🎓🧑‍🎓Attention doctoral students, in-person activity: UB - UC3M – UV Ph.D. Economic History Workshop (8thEdition) - 6th and 7th of June, 2024. University of Barcelona, Diagonal 696, Classroom 2021

My RA just sent me this screenshot wondering if I'm an immortal research witch of yore

Joel Mokyr presents in the this year’s Sir John Hicks Memorial Lecture on “The Industrial Enlightenment: a Concept Too Many?”, introduced by Sheilagh Ogilvie. #twitterstorian #econhist

📢We are thrilled to announce our Young Scholars Initiative #econhist Graduate Webinar Edition Spring 2024!

📅Join us on Thursdays at 17:00 CET online for a new series of exciting papers!

ℹ️ Info & registration: forms.gle/9kfL1noU961Rwm…

ISEG ISEG Lisbon research seminars - today with John Turner John Turner “Prices and informed trading: Evidence from an early stock market” QUB Economic History Research Centre of Economic&Social History (GHES) #twitterstorians #econhist

It's a gorgeous day in Newcastle for the Economic History Society Annual Conference Northumbria Uni We're looking forward to welcoming new and old friends for 3 fabulous days of #econhist #twitterstorians #EHS2024

Huge congratulations to this year’s winner of Thirsk Prize for Best MSc Dissertation, Niclas Grießhaber, who just presented his innovative work that uses NLP to analyse craft guilds ordinances from New Spain and Peru. #econhist #twitterstorian

…and to Rober Merges, who receives the Feinstein Prize for Best MPhil Dissertation. His work investigates parishes in Gloucestershire to explore the course of deindustrialisation and the effects of the Old Poor Law over the long 18th century. #econhist #twitterstorian

In Power & Progress the authors claim several times that union power was responsible for ending Engel's pause. I haven't ever come across journal articles on this. Have you? I've emailed a few people but nothing yet, and it seems like a fairly major claim.... #econhist

Soooo excited to share that I'll be joining TCD Economics as AP next semester! 🤩
Looking forward to work with the #econhist from Centre for Economics, Policy and History (CEPH) Gaia Narciso Marvin Suesse John Turner and the local int' macro group Joe Kopecky& al.
Couldn't have dreamed of a more perfect fit!

After a productive first day at Penn History discussing narratives in #econhist , we are thrilled to welcome Prof. Larry Neal for the first Howard Marks' Annual Lecture in Economic History, on his book manuscript on the Louisiana Purchase.

🔔Next Thursday at 5pm CET it's time for another #econhist discussion with Guohui Jiang
(@UZH_en) about Unfairness Under Arms: Effects of Drafting Elites on Voluntary Enlistment in World War II

We are happy to welcome Andy Ferrara (@PittEcon) to chair the event!

Curious to learn about how Shanxi banks came to dominate the Chinese remittance market in the 19th century? 🏦

Join us on Monday for Meng Wu's presentation in Financial History Network webinar!

Abstract: financialhistorynetwork.wordpress.com/2023/12/07/apr…
Register: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
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Great memories from my PhD defense last Wednesday at Economic History PhD program at UB

An Economic History of the Iberian Peninsula, 700–2000 by Pedro Lains, Leonor Freire Costa, Regina Grafe, Alfonso Herranz-Loncán, David Igual-Luis, Vicente Pinilla and Hermínia Vasconcelos Vilar.
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