With this post by Gabriele Cappelli (UAB) on his paper "Was Putnam wrong? The determinants of social capital in Italy around 1900" (Rivista di Storia Economica, a. XXXIII, n. 3, December 2017), we launch a new blog of short summaries from the latest issues of the Rivista di Storia Economica. Full article available here. 

The African Economic History Network announces a Call for Papers for its 13th meeting in Bologna, on October 12-13 2018.

Tuesday-Wednesday 24-25 April, Nuffield and All Souls College, Oxford.

Last April 18, INPS - the Italian National Social Insurance Agency - published a competition announcement for “Visitinps Scholars” fellowships, to work with the historical material from the Agency's historical archives - deadline next May 4.

During the 22nd Annual Congress of European Business History Association September 6-8, 2018, Ancona, Italy the EBHA will award a prize for the best dissertation in business history submitted to a European university in the previous two years. Deadline: April 30, 2018.