The hot new web site for the Economic History Society of Australia & NZ includes details of the next Australia-Pacific Economic & Business History Conference, at Monash University Feb 6-7 2025. Professor Tim Hatton will give the Noel Butlin lecture! 📉📈🗃🏺📗 📜 #history#AcademicSky#demography#polisky
Campop blog #16: Having a child before marriage was rare in historic Britain, but sex before marriage was not. Today’s blog explains who was having sex before marriage, who ended up as unmarried mothers, and how they were viewed @camunicampop.bsky.socialwww.campop.geog.cam.ac.uk/blog/2024/10...
Hey #DH#datascience sky as well—what are your favorite examples of effective/beautiful data visualizations? On the other side of the coin, what are your favorite terrible/confusing/outright misleading data visualizations? Hoping to compile for a class & will share here
New paper (w/ @dennisfeehan.bsky.socialonlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
We are in the early stages of a new era of demographic research that offers exciting opportunities to quantify demographic phenomena at a scale and resolution once unimaginable. These scientific poss...
Our next Brownbag is Wed, Oct 9 w/ Peter Catron, Assoc Prof of Soc at Univ. of Washington: “Contextual Boundaries: Skin Tone Stratification and Skill Transferability Among Mexicans in the Age of Mass Migration.” 12pm, 310 Social Sciences Building, w/ zoom option. events.berkeley.edu/popsci/event...
Join us for the Fall 2024 Demography Brown Bag Series, with guest Peter Catron from University of Washington. Peter Catron is Associate Professor o...
Please repost! TT JOB at Concordia, History of Black Montreal
“Jacques Cartier and Christopher Columbus, and these people that are kind of treated like they’re heroes and are celebrated explorers, actually had a very dark side which was abducting Native people and taking them to Europe.” #Indigenous#Métis#books#film#history
Métis/Cree filmmaker Barbara Todd Hager will be adapting the award-winning book On Savage Shores: How Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe to a three-part docudrama series titled On Distant Shores. ...
Really pleased to announce the launch of a thoroughly updated version of Locating London's Past: locatinglondon.org@ihr.bsky.social@long18thsem.bsky.social@ihrhistorylab.bsky.social
ungatedresearch.org is a wonderful public good being developed by Martin Abel and Susie Godlonton. It's a website with links to the latest ungated version of papers published in several economics journals. Especially valuable in LMICs where many scholars don't have access to the journals.
Do you want to come to a symposium on early settler poetry and Charles Harpur? SURELY YOU DO, if only to be in Melbourne next Spring.