Teaching Materials for Economic History

Call for contributions

As part of its centenary celebrations, the Economic History Society, in partnership with the Economics Network, is launching a new initiative to expand engagement with economic history beyond research and into teaching and learning. The Society’s centenary provides an opportunity not only to reflect on the development of the discipline, but also to turn to its future – in particular, how economic history can be more effectively taught and integrated within economics education.

This initiative focuses explicitly on pedagogy in a higher education context – how economic history is taught, how it can be integrated across the economics curriculum, and how it can enhance students’ analytical skills, contextual understanding, and critical judgement. The project aims to support lecturers who wish to embed economic history more fully in undergraduate teaching, whether through stand-alone modules, integrated topics within existing courses, or case-based classroom activities.

We welcome contributions from across the UK higher education community and beyond, including lecture materials, seminar plans, reading lists, classroom exercises, assessment ideas, case studies, data-based teaching materials, archival exercises, and examples of good practice in curriculum design. In addition to stand-alone economic history modules, materials may relate to any area of economics teaching – including macroeconomics, development, labour, finance, industrial economics, political economy, or methodology – where historical content can enrich student learning.

The aim is to create a practical, accessible repository that helps colleagues teach economics with economic history, giving students a stronger sense of context, contingency, evidence, and judgement. We are particularly keen to receive resources that are easy to adapt for use by non-specialists, and that speak to current pedagogical challenges in economics and business school settings.

If you have teaching materials you would be willing to share, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please submit any material to Martin Poulter (m.l.poulter at bristol.ac.uk) or Chris Colvin (chris.colvin at qub.ac.uk).

Copyright remains with the authors of the material. Further redistribution or adaptation requires their permission.

For some links to online materials in Economic History, see the section of the Economics Network database of educational materials.