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  • Gardner, Leigh A. ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 (2025) Trade and money in British West Africa, 1912–1970: evidence from seasonal cycles. African Economic History, 53 (1). 144 - 165. ISSN 0145-2258

  • Irigoin, Alejandra ORCID: 0000-0001-5395-1537 (2025) Managing exchange risk: foreign monies and private trade finance in pre-modern long-distance trade (or why did bills of exchange not circulate beyond Europe?). Economic History Working Papers (381). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

  • Roy, Tirthankar ORCID: 0000-0002-4183-2781 and Swamya, Anand V. (2025) Development policy and legal persistence: evidence from India. Rivista di Storia Economica, 41 (1). pp. 95-116. ISSN 0393-3415

  • Nath, Maanik and Roy, Tirthankar ORCID: 0000-0002-4183-2781 (2025) Editors' note. Rivista di Storia Economica, 41 (1). 3 - 6. ISSN 0393-3415

  • Wallis, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0003-1434-515X (2025) Apprenticeship and economic growth in early modern England. 911³Ô¹ÏReview of Books (28 Apr 2025). Blog Entry.

  • Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 and Roy, Tirthankar ORCID: 0000-0002-4183-2781 (2025) Colonial armies and the World Wars. In: The Routledge Economic History of War. Taylor and Francis Inc., pp. 80-93. ISBN 9781032230252

  • Cummins, Neil ORCID: 0000-0001-7328-2967 (2025) Richer and more equal: a new history of wealth in the West. Daniel Waldenström, (Polity Press, 2024. Pp. 256. ISBN 9781509557783. Hbk £25). Economic History Review. ISSN 1468-0289

  • Gaddy, Hampton ORCID: 0000-0001-6397-4679 and Gargiulo, Maria (2025) Can we estimate crisis death tolls by subtracting total population estimates?: a critical review and appraisal. Demographic Research, 52. ISSN 1435-9871

  • Claridge, Jordan ORCID: 0000-0002-8064-7394 , Delabastita, Vincent and Gibbs, Spike (2025) The commercialization of labour markets: evidence from wage inequality in the Middle Ages. Economic History Working Papers (375). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

  • Xue, Melanie ORCID: 0000-0002-2112-4884 and Zhang, Boxiao (2025) The short- and long-run effect of affirmative action: evidence from Imperial China. Economic History Working Papers (376). London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.

  • Irigoin, Alejandra ORCID: 0000-0001-5395-1537 , Kobayashi, Atsushi and Chilosi, David ORCID: 0000-0002-2251-0381 (2025) China inside out: explaining silver flows in the triangular trade, c.1820s-1870s. Economic History Review. ISSN 1468-0289

  • Henderson, Louis ORCID: 0009-0004-3560-4186 and Humphries, Jane (2025) The economic history of caring labour: a case study of breastfeeding. Oxford Review of Economic Policy. ISSN 0266-903X (In Press)

  • Roy, Tirthankar ORCID: 0000-0002-4183-2781 (2025) Bankrolling empire: family fortunes and political transformation in Mughal India. Business History Review, 98 (4). pp. 975-977. ISSN 0007-6805

  • Roy, Tirthankar ORCID: 0000-0002-4183-2781 (2025) The rise and fall of Indian wheat in international trade. In: A History of the Global Wheat Trade: Actors and Dynamics (1840-1914). Taylor and Francis Inc., pp. 258-271. ISBN 9781032642291

  • Roy, Tirthankar ORCID: 0000-0002-4183-2781 and Tumbe, Chinmay (2025) Rainfall seasonality, droughts, and business. In: da Silva Lopes, Teresa, Duguid, Paul and Fredona, Robert, (eds.) Climate Change and Business: Historical Perspectives. Routledge, Abingdon, UK, 113 - 128. ISBN 9781032763392

  • Gardner, Leigh ORCID: 0000-0001-8638-5121 and Husain, Tehreem (2025) Sinews of empire? The Crown Agents for the Colonies and African government debt under colonial rule. Journal of Government and Economics, 17. ISSN 2667-3193

  • Wallis, Patrick ORCID: 0000-0003-1434-515X (2025) Geoffrey M. Hodgson. The wealth of a nation: institutional foundations of English capitalism. Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. 304. Cloth $39.95. American Historical Review, 130 (1). 468 - 469. ISSN 0002-8762

  • Roy, Tirthankar ORCID: 0000-0002-4183-2781 (2025) A. R. Venkatachalapathy, Swadeshi steam: V.O. Chidambaram Pillai and the battle against the British maritime empire (Gurugram: Allen Lane, 2023), 493 pp. Indian Economic and Social History Review. ISSN 0019-4646

  • Cummins, Neil ORCID: 0000-0001-7328-2967 (2025) Ethnic wealth inequality in England: surprising shifts from 1858 to today. 911³Ô¹ÏInequalities (22 Jan 2025). Blog Entry.

  • Hutkova, Karolina ORCID: 0000-0002-1103-1991 , Dal Bó, Ernesto, Leucht, Lukas and Yuchtman, Noam ORCID: 0009-0003-6501-9618 (2025) Company-state at home: the East India Company and the fiscal system in eighteenth-century Britain. Past and Present. ISSN 0031-2746