How to join Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand? A subscription to the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review (AEHR) includes EHS membership, discounts on registration fees for the APEBH Conference, an annual email newslettter from EHS, and email and facebook alerts regarding important activitie To subscribe, go to the AEHR subscription link.

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The Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand is the professional society for economic and business historians working in Australia and New Zealand as well as all economic and business  historians conducting reasearch on the Asia-Pacific region, Australia, and New Zealand. The Society provides editorial and business management of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review, published by Wiley. The Review is published 3 times a year in March, July and November. The Society also organizes the annual Asia-Pacific Economic and Business History Conference.

The aims of the EHS of Australia and New Zealand are:

• To promote the teaching, study and understanding of economic history, with particular emphasis on the economic history of Australia, New Zealand, and the Asia-Pacific region;

• To disseminate knowledge in the field of economic history;

• To encourage the conservation of historical materials and artefacts.

Main activities of EHS of Australia and New Zealand include:

• Editorial management of the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review;

• Organization of the annual Asia-Pacific Economic History Conference and sponsorship of  sessions at other business history, social history, and economic history conferences;

• Prizes for research done by undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty; the Shann Award for overall achievement in the field of economic history;

• Communication of news and activities in economic history and related fields with EHS members and other stakeholders.

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NEWS AND ACTIVITIES

• The 2025 Asia-Pacific Economic and Business History Conference was held at Monash University, Melbourne, Australia on 6-7 February 2025. 50+ participants from Australia, New Zealand, United States, Japan, Korea, China, the U.K. and Europe heard 42 paper presentations and a Butlin Lecture delivered by Professor Tim Hatton.

• The 11th Australasian Cliometrics Workshop was held  on  19 September 2024 at the University of New South Wales.  

• The 2024 E. O. G. Shann Prize for distinguished service to the field of economic history in Australia and New Zealand was awarded to Dr Pamela Statham Drew. Congratulations!

• The Sir Timothy Coghlan Prize is awarded annually for the best paper published in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review in the previous year.  The winners of the 2025 Coghlan Prize are Huiwen Koo, Shao-yu Jheng and Kun-jung Wu for their paper, “Property Rights in a Weak State: Evidence from Land Pawning in Qing Taiwan (1683-1895)”. Congratulations!

• The Asia-Pacific Prize in Economic History is awarded biennially to the best PhD dissertation in Asia-Pacific economic history. The 2024 Prize is awarded to Dr. Ruozong Zhai, Toward the Great Divergence: Economic Growth in the Yangzi Delta, 1393-1953.  Congratulations!

• The XX World Economic History Congress will be held in Lund, Sweden, 28 July - 1 August 2025. For information.

• Obituary for Professor Gus Sinclair (1930-2023).

• Obituary for Professor Boris Schedvin (1936-2024)