Founded in 1991, the EHES supports academic research within the discipline of economic history; organizes an annual conference; publishes regular working papers; and provides resources for early- and mid-career scholars.
The EHES also oversees the European Review of Economic History, a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Oxford University Press on a triannual basis.
In 1989, Leandro Prados, then at the University of Santander, organized a World Congress of the Cliometric Society.
European economists noted the lack of a society dedicated to this new economic history, and so founded the EHES in 1991.
As of 2019, the current editors of the journal are Jaime Reis, Hans-Joachim Voth and Cormac Ó Gráda.
[15][16] The EREH also sponsors the Figuerola Prize, a biannual award for the best article published in the journal.