Prices and Wages in England from the Twelfth to the Nineteenth Century: Vol. I, Price Tables: Mercantile Era.

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JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact support@jstor.org. Prices and Wages in Englandfrom theTwelfth to the Nineteenth Centuy: Vol. I, Price Tables: Mercantile Era. By SIR WILLIAM BEVERIDGE with the collaboration of L. Liepmann, F. J. Nicholas, M. E. Rayner, M. Wretts-Smith and others. Longmans, Green and Co. 1939. lx + 756 pp. with two folded tables. 31s. This volume is the first of the English series of the international study of the History of Prices initiated circa 1929, mainly by Professor E. F. Gay and Sir William Beveridge. Several volumes have already appeared for other countries, including one relating to Germany, by Dr. M. J. Elsas, and a second by the same author, the copies of which are at the moment marooned in Holland.The publication before us, bulky as it is, is only the first of four, and ostensibly consists of preliminary tables of prices, other than wheat prices, in the period I550 to i830. The next will deal with the

The Transportation Revolution and the English Coal Industry, 1695–1842: A Geographical Approach

“…456-65) discusses their reliability and uses them extensively, as did other historians in the Agrarian History of England & Wales. The data set was expanded by using prices reported in Rogers (1887), Beveridge (1939), Nef (1932), andHatcher (1993). Since coal prices were trendless in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, prices dated to any of those years were included in the data set.…”

“…3 This was the increase in coal prices in the Thames Valley (Beveridge 1939), at the Coalbrookdale Ironworks in Shropshire (Hyde 1973), and at the Middleton Colliery in Yorkshire (Rimmer 1955). per ton).…”

“…Since the price of coal had risen about 30 percent in the interim, 3 Young's prices were increased by that proportion. In addition, some coal prices for 1795 were taken from Beveridge (1939), von Tunzelmann (1978), and Rimmer (1955. Altogether, the data set includes prices of coal in 49 towns or villages.…”

“…This paper develops a new method for measuring transport costs using geographical information systems and regression analysis. In principle, costs can be established from business records showing the prices charged for the services involved, and much has been established through these methods (Beveridge 1939;Bogart et al 2021;Freeman 1977;Gerhold 2005Gerhold , 2014Hatcher 1993;Jackman 1966;Maw 2013;Nef 1932). It is hard to get a comprehensive overview, however-comprehensive both in the sense of geographical coverage and of the services involved.…”