Economic History Newsletter (c.)

Date: April 1994 Number: 6.

Index

1. Editorial
2. Conference Report
3. Work in Progress
4. Conference on Aging
5. Network Services
6. Upcoming Events
7. Job Market
8. Questions and Suggestions

Editors: Alejandra Irigoin, Sylvia Schwaag, Goetz von Thadden.

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     Dear Economic Historian,

This is the sixth issue of our newsletter now. It has not changed its form since the last one although we lack a leading article this time. We invite volunteers for the next issue who are willing to keep their deadlines. We also invite people to introduce their respective economic history department and/or the economic history journal that is issued there.

As from the next issue we would like to start a new service introducing archives. We invite contributions from researchers who have worked in archives as the League of Nations, United Nations, Central Banks, Public Record Offices etc. We would be interested to know the exact addresses of the institution, the way to get access to the material, catalogues, photocopy facilities, what can be expected to be found, etc.

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The Editors

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Report on the Economic History Society Conference, held in Nottingham on the 8-10 April 1993 by Francesca Carnevali.

The conference opened on Friday with the four parallel sessions dedicated to the New Researchers' papers. Papers were given covering most periods, from Medieval to Contemporary, and many topics, from the "Origins of the Manor in Danelaw" to "The effects of banking regulation in Spain between 1930 to 1970". Comparative papers were presented and the perspective of research is becoming more European.
On Saturday morning more parallel sessions were run and the one to provoke the most fervid discussion was that entitled "Towards a New History of the Industrial Revolution", in which Jane Humphries discussed the need to bring women's history into the mainstream debate about economic growth and how this can be done. The other papers presented during the course of the morning ranged from the social meaning of medieval buildings to the issue of ethnicity and the enterprise.
During the afternoon a group of hardy economic historians ventured into Nottingham, defying sleet and torrential rain, in search of Robin Hood and Nottingham Castle...while the rest stayed indoors to listen to papers on new approaches to imperialism.

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