#Economica is an @FT #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. ft.com/content/c44a4bcc-f230…

What a joy this was - full video link below:

Excited that #economica - my #economichistory of the world - is now available in Portuguese @ClubeAutor 📷 Praça do Comércio, Lisbon

To every little girl, It’s ok to aspire to “making your own money” when you’re older. Money is nothing to be ashamed of - ignore anyone who tells you otherwise. #femalevirtue #entrepreneur #money #morality #business

A big thank you to @KingsELab @Kings_College #Cambridge for hosting me last night to talk about the history of female #entrepreneurship, drawing on my global economic history, #economica (an FT best book of 2025). It was an honour to meet everyone involved in the E-Lab, including so many inspiring female entrepreneurs, and to be welcomed and introduced by one of my brilliant former students, Rhys Williams. Hats off to @KamiarMohaddes, Hanniya Kamran & Sophie Harbour. #economica is out now in paperback @headlinepg and is currently available on kindle (UK) for a special price of 99p (for a limited time only).

Looking forward to speaking @Kings_College tonight where I’ll be presenting “A Four Thousand Year History of Female Entrepreneurship” to @KingsELab From Lamassi - the cloth maker who ran one of the world’s first “multinational” businesses in Bronze Age Iraq - to Annie Minerva Turnbo Malone and Madam C.J. Walker - America’s first Black female millionaires - this talk tells the story of women’s driving role in the business world over the past four millennia. Highlighting some of history’s most remarkable female entrepreneurs together with the invisible contributions of wives, mothers and daughters in family businesses - still today the mainstay of the economy - it challenges the belief that business has only ever worked in the interests of, and been shaped by, men. Thrilled to hear that the talk is sold out and look forward to meeting everyone there. To find out more, take a look at my economic history of the world (#economica @HeadlinePress1 ), which is now available in paperback and is currently 99p on kindle UK (& £3.99 for the UK audiobook) kingselab.org/all-events/vic…

“On the Brink” @FitzMuseum_UK in #Cambridge. Painted in 1864 by the artist Alfred Elmore, it depicts a young woman in a casino who, perhaps to fund her gambling habits / debts, is considering sex work. Notice the torn playing card on the floor. A moralistic tale and a reminder to all women of the delicacy of their reputation. #cultoffemalemodesty

Quoted in today’s Times: thetimes.com/life-style/fash…

What a wonderful evening @gowerst_books meeting people and talking about my economic history of the world, #economica. So many fantastic questions and always an honour to sign books. A special thank you to Rachel at Waterstones.

I’ll be speaking @CaiusCollege 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: eventbrite.co.uk/e/an-evenin… #economica #womenwealthpower

It was a huge pleasure to be interviewed on stage in #Blois last week by Anne-Sophie Lechevallier of Libération @libe. If you missed the event, you can read an immersive write up of the interview here: liberation.fr/idees-et-debat… #economica 📗 #PointNemo @rdvhistoire

#Economica - my economic history of the world - is reviewed in today’s @lemondefr 🎉🎉🎉 “Dans son ouvrage « Economica. Comment les femmes ont enrichi le monde », l’économiste Victoria Bateman retrace la façon dont, depuis le Paléolithique jusqu’à la Chine moderne, en passant par l’Empire romain, les femmes ont sans cesse été ramenées à leur statut d’épouse ou de mère” You can read the review in full in the physical paper or online at: lemonde.fr/idees/article/202… A big thank you to Marc Angrand for this detailed and positive review. Economica 📗 is out now with #PointNemo

The absolute joy of seeing in-person for the very first time one of my favourite paintings: “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. To begin with, it depicts a married couple occupying equal space on the canvas, which, given that women are not always equally represented in art (whether or not they are can, of course, reveal a lot about a particular society), always puts an instant smile on my face. It was painted during the Flemish Renaissance which, economically speaking, marked the start of an era in which the European axis of economic power shifted away from the Mediterranean towards the Atlantic coastline, something which placed Netherlands and Belgium at the heart of Europe’s economic growth. Of related significance is that while the central economic role is assigned to the husband (as the Money Changer), the wife’s influence is not entirely disregarded. Given how much wives have contributed to family businesses throughout history, this is important. Note, though, that the wife is depicted with her hand on a religious text while (apparently) being “distracted” by the counting of money. It is a sign not only of how women were assigned “pious” roles but also of the (supposed) conflict between money and morality. Taken together, this is a painting that offers so many talking points, all of which are highly relevant to my work as an economic historian. While it might not be as famous as the Mona Lisa (on display at the same gallery) at least there are no crowds to block your view. #econhist #economica

Quelle surprise! How best to celebrate being #BookOfTheDay in Les Echos today? Of course (as it’s me) - sitting on a terrace overlooking the beautiful Parisian rooftops on a sunny morning, wearing my outfit from RDV L’Histoire in Blois. Merci à Les Echos #Economica - le livre du jour! 🎉🎉🎉

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

No, I didn’t forget my clothes in Blois yesterday at the world’s largest history festival - RDV de L’Histoire - I arrived in one of my favourite outfits, carefully chosen to coordinate with the beautiful pink and gold cover of the French edition of #Economica. But Libération’s Anne-Sophie Lechevallier began the event with such an excellent question on my use of nudity that - on the spur of the moment - I decided that I could best respond both in words (expertly translated by Economica’s French translator Sylvie Deraime) and in action - by baring my body, gradually removing one item of clothing for every question I was asked. I could also make good use of my (limited) French yesterday, repeatedly saying “il fait froid” as it was surprisingly cold in #Blois - as least to those of us wearing only a necklace and shoes.

Well that was quick-fire questioning - under 30 minutes and I’ve run out of clothes to take off. Next time I’m being questioned by Anne-Sophie, I know to wear a lot more layers. But she still had another great question on the link between the success and failure of great civilisations, and their approach to women’s freedom. It won’t surprise you to hear that it’s those civilisations that most promoted women’s independence who flourished, and that when they restricted women’s freedoms they failed. #economica @rdvhistoire