Our new issue features articles on China's and Zimbabwe's industrialization as well as Spanish railways, international trade, and women's work. 👀Have a look at revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Hist… and stay tuned for more announcements soon!

Did railway companies influence the shaping and expansion process of the Spanish network Guillermo Esteban and Jordi Martí Henneberg show us how. Open access until September 30 through doi.org/10.1344/rhiihr… Read the blog post! ihrthegreatspurt.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/did…

We gladly announce a new lecture series in honour of Professor Jordi Nadal (1929-2022), founder of Industrial History Review. The series is organised by the Research Centre in Economic History Jordi Nadal in Barcelona and will start on March 20th. See the programme: ub.edu/portal/web/dp-…

📢Attention! Issue 87 of Industrial History Review is now available in revistes.ub.edu/index.php/Hist…. We feature great articles on the state´s role, social capital, institutional constraints, foreign investment and industrial promotion. Open access to read until 31st of May!📻Stay tuned for more news!

Coming back from the excellent #ESHD2023 Conference, where I presented two joint papers (with Guillermo Esteban & Josep-Maria Ramon-Muñoz) on the relationship between household size & height, and on the impact of railways on health. Very helpful comments! Thanks a lot!

Published online: The Spanish railway network, 1848–2023 by Guillermo Esteban-Oliver and Jordi Martí-Henneberg bit.ly/3V7apN8

Together with Jordi Martí, I have developed a new GIS railway database for Spain. It includes highly precise information about the evolution of the network between the years 1848-2023. We hope it will be useful for ongoing research, and that it might also stimulate some new ones.

Delighted to present the program of the Summer Workshop we have organized next week in Zaragoza (27-28 June) on inequality and human capital, featuring some of Spain's top economic historians. Facultad de Economía y Empresa Universidad Zaragoza EH-Valencia Economic History PhD program at UB AEHE

Delighted to have presented my joint paper on market access & height (with Guillermo Esteban and Josep-Maria Ramon-Muñoz) at the workshop on inequality & human capital. Thanks to @galofrevila for his great discussion of the paper & to the participants & organisers for such a superb workshop👇

Thank you so much to everyone who attended the II Workshop! We truly enjoyed and learned during those two days with outstanding researchers. We are pleased to have had the opportunity to host you at Universidad Zaragoza Facultad de Economía y Empresa. We look forward to seeing you next year at Economic History PhD program at UB!

Alfonso Díez EH-Valencia presents our joint work (Guillermo Esteban, Daniel A. Tirado) on the informational capacity of the Spanish Crown in the mid-18th century. #earthquake #statecapacity ISEG Lisbon APHES #econhist #lisbon #Lisboa

Lectores/as de Ayer! Hoy os presentamos el primero de los seis artículos que componen la sección de Estudios del nº 137 “Levando anclas: Estado, políticas públicas y despegue de la navegación marítima en España, 1860-1910” Fuente imagen: Puerto de Huelva

EHES has an insightful new working paper by Ramon Ramon-Muñoz Guillermo Esteban and Josep-Maria Ramon-Muñoz👏 The paper is "Transport and Biological Living Standards: Evidence from Late 19th-Century Catalonia"🇪🇸 👉Read all EHES working papers here: ehes.org/working-papers/