Eileen Power (1889-1940) was a British economic historian. She became Professor of Economic History at the London School of Economics in 1931, having held a position there since 1921, and Professor of Economic History at the University of Cambridge in 1940. She founded the Economic History Review in 1927. 1889 (MDCCCLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... Economic history is the application of economic theories to historical study. ... The London School of Economics and Political Science, often referred to as the London School of Economics or simply the LSE, is a specialist university and a constituent college of the federal University of London, located on Houghton Street in Central London, off the Aldwych and next to the Royal... The University of Cambridge (often called Cambridge University, or just Cambridge), located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ...

She married the historian Michael Postan in 1937, having previously been engaged to Reginald Johnston. Sir Reginald Fleming Johnston (1874–1938) was a Scottish academic, diplomat and pedagogue and the teacher of Pu Yi, the last emperor of China, and later appointed as commissioner of British-held Weihaiwei. ...

Works

• The Paycockes of Coggeshall (1919)
• The Unconquered Knight. A Chronicle of the Deeds of Don Pero Nino, Count of Buelna de Gamez (1920) editor
• Medieval English Nunneries (1922)
• Medieval People (1924)
• Tudor Economic Documents (1924, three volumes) editor with R. H. Tawney
• Don Juan of Persia: A Shiah Catholic (1926) editor with E. Denison Ross
• Pero Tafur travels and adventures 1435-1439 (1926) editor with E. Denison Ross
• Boys & Girls of History (1926) with Rhoda Power
• The Diary of Henry Teonge, Chaplain on Board H.M.'s Ships Assistance, Bristol, and Royal Oak, 1675-1679, editor with E. Denison Ross
• John Macdonald Travels (1745-1779) (1927) editor with E. Denison Ross
• Cities and Their Stories, an Introduction to the Study Of European History (1927) with Rhoda Power
• Hans Staden. The True History of His Captivity - 1557 (1928) editor with E. Denison Ross
• Hernando Cortes - Five Letters 1519-1526 (1928) editor with E. Denison Ross
• Huc & Gabet. Travels in Tartary, Thibet and Chinal 1844-46 (1928, 2 volumes) editor with E. Denison Ross
• The Goodman of Paris (Le Menagier De Paris): A Treatise on Moral and Domestic Economy By A Citizen of Paris c. 1393 (1928) translator
• More Boys & Girls of History (1928) with Rhoda Power
• Memoirs of Lorenzo Da Ponte : Mozart's Librettist (1929) editor with Elizabeth Drew
• Sir Lancelot of the Lake : a French Prose Romance of the Thirteenth Century (1929) editor with G. G. Coulton
• The Autobiography of Ousama (1929) editor with G. C. Coulton
• The Works of Liudprand of Cremona (1930) editor with G. C. Coulton
• Madame D'Aulnoy: Travels into Spain (1930) editor with E. Denison Ross
• English Trade in 15th Century (1933) with Michael Postan
• Bernal Diaz Del Castillo, the Discovery and Conquest of Mexico 1517-1521 (1936) editor with E. Denison Ross
• The Wool Trade in English Medieval History (1941) Ford Lectures
• Cambridge Economic History of Europe, Vol. 1: The Agrarian Life of the Middle Ages (1942) editor with J. H. Clapham
• Medieval Women (1975)
• Jahangier and the Jesuits editor with E. Denison Ross
• Thomas Gage The English-American A New Survey of the West Indies 1648 editor with E. Denison Ross

Richard Henry Tawney (R.H. Tawney) (1880 - 1962) was an English writer, economist, historian, social critic and university professor and a leading advocate of Christian Socialism Born in Calcutta, India, Tawney was educated at Rugby School and Balliol College, Oxford where he studied modern history. ...

Reference

• Maxine Berg, A Woman in History: Eileen Power, 1889-1940 (review)

External links

• LSE page
• Page at Spartacus