The European Historical Economics Society was founded in 1991 to promote European research and training in economic history. The Society is registered with the Charity Commissioners of England and Wales and its aims are stated as: “The advancement of education in European economic history through the study of European economics and economic history, particularly through the comparison and analysis of European economies”.
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EHES Conference 2025
On behalf of the European Historical Economics Society and the local organizing committee, I would like to draw your attention to the EHES 2025 at the University of Hohenheim, which will take place from September 4 to 6, 2025.
The call for papers will be published on November 1, 2024 on ehesconference.org. Acceptance decisions will be sent out by April 1, 2025 at the latest. I hope that many of you will be able to present and discuss the wide range of topics that we study in economic history.
For further information please see this website: ehesconference.org
Sibylle Lehmann-Hasemeyer

The Society publishes the European Review of Economic History since 1996. It is currently published four times a year and has an impact factor (2024) of 1.0/1.5 5-year.
The EREH is a major outlet for research in economic history. Articles cover the whole range of economic history — papers on European, non-European, comparative and world economic history are all welcome. Contributions shed new light on existing debates, raise new or previously neglected topics, and provide fresh perspectives from comparative research. The Review includes…
Working papers
Paper No. 305:
Income Inequality and Structural Transformation: Evidence from Swedish Micro Data, 1870–1970
by Erik Bengtsson, Lund University; Jakob Molinder, Uppsala University and Svante Prado, University of Gothenburg
June 2026.
Paper No. 304:
Shared Knowledge, Shared Lives: Literacy Spillovers in Rural Spanish Households, 1906–1920
by Opeyemi Afolabi Femi-Oladunni; Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Universidad Europea de Madrid and Universidad Pontificia Comillas
June 2026.
Paper No. 303:
Dairy farming and the rural exodus
by Jonatan Andersson, Uppsala University and Göran Ulväng, Uppsala University
May 2026.
Paper No. 302:
Accounting for the Reversal of Fortune: Spain and Britain, 1501–1800The Mechanisms of Intergenerational Status…
