Dr Victoria Bateman

#Economica is a Financial Times #BestBook of 2025 🎉🎉🎉 Huge thanks to Martin Wolf for his selection. If you’d like to read a new economic history of the world from the Stone Age to today, get your copy now. www.ft.com/content/c44a... #womenwealthpower

What a pleasure to speak @kingscollege.bsky.social Entrepreneurship Lab: m.youtube.com/watch?v=aiHF... #economica

Excited that #economica - my #economichistory of the world - is now available in Portuguese 📚

A big thank you to @kingscollege.bsky.social #Cambridge for hosting me last night to talk about the history of female #entrepreneurship, drawing on my global economic history, #economica. It was an honour to meet everyone involved in the E-Lab, including so many inspiring female entrepreneurs.

Looking forward to speaking @kingscollege.bsky.social tonight where I’ll be presenting “A Four Thousand Year History of Female Entrepreneurship” to a sold out audience at the E-Lab: www.kingselab.org/all-events/v... #economica

“On the Brink” at the Fitzwilliam in #Cambridge (1864, by Alfred Elmore). A young woman in a casino who, to fund gambling habits / debts, is considering #sexwork. A moralistic tale and a reminder to all women of the delicacy of their reputation. #cultoffemalemodesty

Quoted in today’s Times www.thetimes.com/life-style/f...

I’ll be speaking at Caius (Cambridge) on Wednesday at 5.30pm on the topic of “Women & the Rise and Decline of Civilisations”, drawing on my latest book #economica 📗. Look forward to possibly seeing you there.

Come and see me in London tomorrow @gowerst-books.bsky.social 📗: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evening... #economica #womenwealthpower

Comment le rôle-clé des femmes dans l’essor de l’économie a été invisibilisé depuis la préhistoire www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl... (Abonné.e.s)

In todays @liberation.fr: Anne-Sophie Lechevallier’s immersive write up of our on stage interview in Blois www.liberation.fr/idees-et-deb... #economica 📗

#Economica - my economic history of the world - is reviewed in today’s @lemonde.fr 🎉🎉🎉 You can read the review in full in the physical paper or online at: www.lemonde.fr/idees/articl... A big thank you to Marc Angrand for this detailed and positive review. Economica 📗 is out now with #PointNemo

“The Money Changer and his Wife”, painted in 1514 by Quentin METSYS (on display at the #Louvre in Paris). As an economic historian and feminist, this is a painting filled with so much meaning in relation to my own work. It was an absolute joy to see it in-person for the very first time. #econhis

Book of the day @lesechosfr.bsky.social - enormous thanks to Margaux Boulte for selecting my economic history of the world, #Economica, as today’s book of the day 🎉🎉🎉📚

At RDV de L’Histoire in Blois, the first question from Anne-Sophie Lechevallier inspired me, so I have promised to take off one item of clothing for every question. So far I’ve only taken off my poncho, so the real question is: do I run out of clothes or does Anne-Sophie run out of questions first…

Looking forward to being on stage @rdvhistoire.bsky.social tomorrow 📚

I’m surrounded! Magical and sublime - rather like being in a fairytale - this was my first time experiencing Monet’s wrap around water lilies at the #Orangerie in #Paris. Well worth a visit.

A treat to be interviewed by Charlie Dupiot @rfi.fr about Economica 📚. A wonderfully wide ranging conversation covering so much ground and so many of history’s most remarkable women, from Madam Tinubu to Josephine Baker.

Out and about in beautiful Paris with #Economica 📗 - thank you to everyone for such a warm welcome. Looking forward to the next few days of talks and interviews (as well as some more delicious French cooking).

What a memorable #Economica 📗 book launch in #Paris today. Huge thanks #Voxe & #PointNemo - I’m overwhelmed by your support. Inspiring to meet and chat with so many women writers, entrepreneurs, journalists, professionals and activists from across France. Here’s to women’s economic freedom.

I fell in love with boats when I first visited Venice, so you can imagine how excited I was to learn that my Parisian #Economica book launch will be taking place tomorrow on the Seine at the foot of Notre Dame. Huge thanks to Voxe & #pointnemo_editions for this very special treat. I am overwhelmed.

The perfect #Economica welcome to Paris 🍾🧁 To resist or not to resist - that is the question! Paris, how can I possibly resist your many charms? #economica #womenwealthpower #paris

“In such ugly times, the only true protest is beauty” (Phil Ochs). I’m not entirely sure I agree, though I can understand the point. Provocative and bewitching (& Palazzo Pisani Moretta provides a beautiful backdrop), this inaugural exhibition of the Fondazione Dries Van Noten ends tomorrow. #venice

Want #Economica 📗 for just 99p on Kindle (UK) or £3.99 on audible (UK)? If so, now is the time to splurge. Limited time offer before it returns to full price. #womenwealthpower @headlinebooks.bsky.social

Ahead of my trip to Paris, thrilled to feature in #MadameFigaro. Huge thanks to Céline Cabourg for such an insightful and thoughtful piece, drawing together my academic work and activism alongside my latest book, Economica (published in France by #PointNemoEditions) #economica #womenwealthpower

Honoured and humbled that #Economica has been shortlisted for one of France’s top literary prizes: the 2027 Prix Nos Humanités (as created by Page des libraires and la Sofia). I can’t wait to join librarians, readers, booksellers and fellow authors in France very soon. #noshumanités2027

Excited to hold the French edition of #Economica - in blazing pink and gold glory - in my own hands. On bookshelves tomorrow (translated by Sylvie Deraime & Valentine Palfrey), I can’t wait to head to Paris and then on to Blois for the @rdvhistoire.bsky.social, the world’s largest history festival.

#Economica 📗 - my economic history of the world - spotted on the #CultureVulture table at Waterstones London Victoria. A big thank you to everyone who has read or gifted the book. I am very grateful.

Whoever says #Venice, says boats. Whoever says boats, says trade. Whoever says trade, says #economichistory.

Yes, I’m on holiday. No, I cannot resist. After all, in #Venice #economichistory is all around.

Apparently Tintoretto paintings require censorship - hence the automatic warning applied here.

Where art history meets economic history: “Women Artists and Artisans in Venice and the Veneto, 1400-1750” 📚, edited by Professor Tracy E. Cooper. The first publication to result from an exciting new research program. Can’t wait to see how the research unfolds. #econhist #venice #womenartists

Rocking it with the Roman (or, rather, Greek) ladies at the Correr Museum in #Venice today. We are old friends: Athena and Aphrodite featured in my last two books (though, whilst the heavens expect women to choose between their body and their brain, as the Gods cannot otherwise cope, I refuse).

It’s an artwork that seems to provoke strong reactions. I absolutely love it and am drawn to it every time I visit Ca’ Pesaro gallery in Venice. It’s Leoncillo Leonardi’s monument to the resistance, titled “La Partigiana” (The Woman Partisan, 1953): archivio-capesaro.visitmuve.it/en/mostre-en...

The monumental scale of artistic installations and exhibits at this year’s #Venice #biennale - the International Art Festival - with themes that this year include feminism, migration, climate change, decolonisation, belonging and not only anti-capitalism but also anti-communism.

She’s just a devil woman - not the official title - at #GallerieAcademia, #Venice

A Spectre is Haunting Europe (Un fantasma percorre l’Europa) by Armando Pizzinato, 1949 - a title that you may recognise from the pages of the #CommunistManifesto. On display at #CaPesaro in #Venice - a chance to see some of the best modern art in an historic palazzo on the #GrandCanal.

#GrandCanal #Venice by night

Another lovely day in the beautiful (and very hot) city of #venice - an economic historian’s dream city. #econhist #history #economics #trade

What do you do if you’re the national broadcaster - #RAI - and you need to get your broadcasting vans into a city where vehicles are not permitted? Well, you put them on a platform and boat them along the canals, mooring them up in the middle of the #GrandCanal, at the heart of the action. #Venice

#Economica - French Cover reveal 📚

Excited to be back in the loveliest city in the world #Venice

Honoured to be speaking at the world’s largest history festival @rdvhistoire.bsky.social next month in France at the Royal Palace in #Blois. Look forward to being surrounded by fellow historians, history lovers and books 📚 #Economica will be out in French later this month. #RVH2026 #womenwealthpower

In today’s #DeStandaard (alongside some familiar faces). A pleasure to be interviewed by Giselle Nath. #Economica - my economic history of the world - 📗 is out now in Dutch. #econhis #econhist