Economic History Collections

• American economic history since 1860
• Bibliography of banking histories
• A bibliography of British industrial relations, 1971-1979
• Bibliography of European economic and social history
• A bibliography of female economic thought to 1940
• Bibliography of the British coal industry: secondary literature, parliamentary and departmental papers, mineral maps and plans, and a guide to sources
• A critical bibliography of Adam Smith
• Economic arithmetic: a guide to the statistical sources of English commerce, industry and finance, 1700-1850
• Economic history of Canada: a guide to information sources
• Économie et finances sous l’Ancien Régime: guide du chercheur: 1523-1789
• Economisch-historische wegwijzer: een gids voor het bronnen- en literatuuronderzoek van de Nederlandse econonomische geschiedenis
• Guia dos arquivos privados relevantes para o estudo da história da politica econômica no Brasil, 1822-1964
• Latin America: a guide to economic history, 1830-1930
• The records of American business
• Les sources de l’histoire économique et sociale du Moyen Âge
• Wirtschaft im Dritten Reich: eine Bibliographie

• Between history and economics: an introduction to economic history
• Debating the Industrial Revolution
• Dove va la storia economica?: metodi e prospettive
• Economics and the historian
• Historians, economists and economic history
• Historians of economics and economic thought: the construction of a disciplinary memory
• Myth, history and the Industrial Revolution
• L’Œuvre d’Ernest Labrousse: genèse d’un modèle d’histoire économique
• The poverty of Clio: resurrecting economic history
• Reflections on the cliometrics revolution: conversations with economic historians
• A woman in history: Eileen Power, 1889-1940

• Abstract of British historical statistics
• Atlas of British social and economic history since c. 1700
• Atlas of Industrializing Britain, 1780-1914
• China’s foreign trade statistics, 1864-1949
• Dictionnaire du monde rural: les mots du passé
• English overseas trade statistics, 1697-1808
• Handbook of medieval exchange
• Historical and commercial atlas of China
• Historical dictionary of the Great Depression, 1929-1940
• International historical statistics: Africa, Asia and Oceania, 1750-2005
• International historical statistics: the Americas and Australasia
• International historical statistics: Europe 1750-2005
• Money and exchange in Europe and America, 1600-1775: a handbook
• One hundred years of economic statistics: United Kingdom, United States of America, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden
• The Oxford encyclopedia of economic history
• Statistics for the study of British Caribbean economic history, 1763-1833
• The inter-war British economy: a statistical abstract
• The world economy: historical statistics

• Briefwechsel mit Karl Marx und Friedrich Engels
• The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes
  • Vol. 1. Indian currency and finance
  • Vol. 2. The economic consequences of the peace
  • Vol. 3. A revision of the treaty being a sequel to the economic consequences
  • Vol. 4. A tract on monetary reform
  • Vol. 5. A treatise on money: the pure theory of money
  • Vol. 6. A treatise on money: the applied theory of money
  • Vol. 7. The general theory of employment interest and money
• The collected works of John Stuart Mill
• A companion to the history of economic thought
• The correspondence of Léon Walras and related papers
• The De moneta of Nicholas Oresme, and English Mint documents
• The economic writings of Sir William Petty
• Locke on money
• Mémoires et discours sur les monnaies et les finances (1790-1792)
• The papers and correspondence of William Stanley Jevons
• La scienza come dovere civile : due scritti di Angelo Messedaglia
• Scritture inedite e dissertazione “Del commercio”
• The Wealth of Nations
• The works and correspondence of David Ricardo
• The works of Thomas Robert Malthus

Agriculture

• The agrarian history of England and Wales
• Agricultural records, A.D. 220-1977
• British farm surveys 1941 to 1943: the National Farm Survey of England and Wales and the agricultural survey of Scotland: reports and statistical analysis
• Bronnen van de geschiedenis van de landbouw van de Nederlanden
• Farming the dust bowl: a first-hand account from Kansas
• General report on the Gosford Estates in County Armagh, 1821
• General view of the agriculture of…(Hertfordshire), (Lincolnshire), (Norfolk), (Oxfordshire), (Suffolk), (Sussex)
• Letters from the dust bowl
• Observations in husbandry
• The review and abstract of the county reports to the Board of Agriculture
• Seasons and prices: the role of the weather in English agricultural history
• The stonemason: Donald Macleod’s chronicle of Scotland’s Highland clearances

Mining and Mineral Extraction

• Dark days: memories of the Lancashire and Cheshire coalmining industry
•  The Gold Rush diary of Ramon Gil Navarro
• Medical records for the South Wales coalfield, c. 1890-1948: an annotated guide to the South Wales Coalfield Collection
• Las minas hispanoamericanas á mediados del siglo XVIII: informes enviados al Real Gabinete de Historia Natural de Madrid
• Murray’s guide to the gold diggings: the Australian diggings: where they are and how to get at them
• Das Muth-, Verleih- und Bestätigungsbuch 1770-1773: eine Quelle zur Frühgeschichte des Ruhrbergbaus

Whaling and the Fishing Industry

• An Arctic whaling journal of 1791
• The Arctic whaling journals of William Scoresby the younger
• The Dalton journal: two whaling voyages to the South Seas 1823-1829
• Medieval fish, fisheries and fishponds in England
• Papers relating to Behring Sea fisheries (1887)
• The royal fishery companies of the seventeenth century
• The whaling journal of Captain W. B. Rhodes: barque Australian of Sydney 1836-1838

• Alfred Krupps Briefe 1826-1887: im Auftrage der Familie und der Firma Krupp
• Briefe einer industriallenfamilie 1919-1926
• Carl Duisberg (1861-1935): Briefe eines Industriellen
• The cotton mills of Oldham
• Crossing the bar: an oral history of the British shipbuilding, ship repairing and marine engine-building industries in the age of decline, 1956-1990
• Iron and steel on the European market in the 17^th century: a contemporary Swedish account of production forms and marketing
• The letters of Philip Stannard, Norwich textile manufacturer (1751-1763)
• Life at the ICI: memories of working at ICI Billingham
• Life in a railway factory
• Notes of a tour in the manufacturing districts of Lancashire.
• The records of a Scottish cloth manufactory at New Mills, Haddingtonshire, 1681-1703
• Recueil de documents relatifs à l’histoire de l’industrie drapière en Flandre
• Vauxhall motors and the Luton economy: 1900-2002

Banking and Finance

• The Bank of England from within, 1694-1900
• Banque et société, XIXe-XXIe siècle: identités croisées: homage à Pierre de Longuemar
• Documents relating to Canadian currency, exchange and finance during the French period
• Die Korrespondenz Hans Fugger von 1566-1594: Regesten der Kopierbücher aus dem Fuggerarchiv
• Laws of the United States relating to currency, finance, and banking from 1789-1896
• Lettres adressées à la Maison Rothschild de Paris par son représentant à Bruxelles
• A list of the country banks of England and Wales, private and proprietary…(1838)
• Lombard Street: a description of the money market
• Mints and money in medieval England
• The monetary history of gold: a documentary history, 1660-1999
• A select collection of scare and valuable tracts and other publications on paper currency and banking
• Select tracts and documents illustrative of English monetary history 1626-1730
• Die Statuten der Banken, Sparkassen und Kreditgenossenschaften in Hamburg und Altona von 1710-1889
• Studi sulla moneta fiorentina: secoli XIII-XVI

Retail

• Bath commercialis’d: shops, trades and market at the 18^th-century spa
• Consumption and the world of goods
• Hugh Alley’s Caveat: the markets of London in 1598 : Folger MS. V.a.318
• The making of the consumer: knowledge, power and identity in the modern world
• The public markets of the City of London, surveyed by William Leybourn in 1677
• Retailers and consumer changes in early modern Europe: England, France, Italy, and the Low Countries
• Tallis’s London street views…with a commercial directory corrected every month, the whole forming a complete stranger’s guide through London

• Bradford Poor Law Union: papers and correspondence with the Poor Law Commission, October 1834-January 1839
• The diary of Benjamin Woodcock, master of the Barnet Union Workhouse 1836-1838
• Documents concernant les pauvres de Rouen: extraits des archives de l’Hôtel de Ville
• Dublin tenement life: an oral history
• English poor law history
• Essex pauper letters, 1731-1837
• Fabrics, filth and fairy tents: the Yorkshire textile districts in 1849: an eyewitness account of textile workers’ conditions in Huddersfield, Dewsbury, Batley, Halifax and Leeds in 1849
• How the other half live: studies among the tenements of New York
• Hunger pains: life inside foodbank Britain
• Poverty and sickness in modern Europe: narratives of the sick poor, 1780-1938
• Life and labour of the people of London
• The Morning Chronicle survey of labour and the poor: the metropolitan districts
• Narratives of the poor in eighteenth-century Britain
• The origins of modern welfare: Juan Luis Vives, De Subventione Pauperum, and the city of Ypres
• The people of the abyss
• Pobreza y beneficiencia en la España contemporánea (1808-1936)
• Poverty: a study of town life
• She was aye workin’: memories of tenement women in Edinburgh and Glasgow
• Writings on the Poor Laws

• The 1984-1985 miners’ strike in Nottinghamshire: ‘If spirit alone won battles’: the diary of John Lowe
• An atlas of industrial protest in Britain, 1750-1990
• The Australian labor movement, 1850-1907 : extracts from contemporary documents
• La condition ouvrière en France depuis cent ans
• The General Strike, 1926
• Die Gewerkschaften und die Angestelltenfrage 1945-1949
• Las hermandades sindicales de labradores y ganaderos (1944-1977): historia, documentos y fuentes
• Labour movements in India: documents (Vol. 1), (Vol. 2), (Vol. 3)
• The miners’ strike day by day: the illustrated 1984-85 diary of Yorkshire miner Arthur Wakefield
• The Samuel Gompers papers
• Solidarity stories: an oral history of the ILWU
• Zur Geschichte der Produktivkräfte und Produktionsverhältnisse in Preussen 1810-1933: Spezialinventar des Bestandes Preussisches Ministerium für Handel und Gewerbe

• Aspirations and realities: a documentary history of economic development policy in Ireland since 1922
• Del centralismo proteccionista al régimen liberal (1837-1872)
• The Chancellors' Tales: managing the British economy
• The collected papers of James Meade
• Le Conseil royal des finances au 18e siècle et le registre E 3659 des Archives nationales
• Foreign relations of the United States, The Energy Crisis: Vol. 36 1969-1974 & Vol. 37 1974-1980
• The German economy, 1945-1947 : Charles P. Kindleberger’s letters from the field
• Inside the Department of Economic Affairs: Samuel Brittan, the diary of an ‘irregular’, 1964-6
• Nederlandse ontwekkelingssamenwerking: bronnenuitgave
• The official history of privatisation
• Política commercial exterior en España (1931-1975)
• Republiek der Verenigde Nederlanden en het mercantilisme
• The Robert Hall Diaries

• Battista de Luco, mercante Genovese del secolo XV e il suo cartulario
• Beschryvinge van de Oostindische Compagnie
• Britain and European integration, 1945-1998
• Charters granted to the East India Company from 1601: also the treatises and grants made with or obtained from the princes and powers in India from the year 1756 to 1772
• A collection of documents on economic relations between the United States and Central America (1906-1956)
• A commercial dictionary: containing the present state of mercantile law, practice, and custom intended for the use of the cabinet, the counting-house, and the library
• The diary of Heinrich Witt
• Diary of Richard Cocks: Cape-Merchant in the English factory in Japan 1615-1622
• A discourse of trade from England unto the East-Indies 1621
• El document marítimo-mercantil en Cádiz (1550-1600): Diplomática notarial
• An eastern entrepot: a collection of documents illustrating the history of Hong Kong
• Geschichte der europäischen Integration bis 1989
• Hansekaufleute in Brügge
• Jean Monnet et les débuts de la function publiques européenne: la haute autorité de la CECA (1952-1953)
• Lex mercatoria rediviva: or, the merchant’s directory
• Die Lübecker Pfundzollbücher 1492-1496
• Protection or free trade: an examination of the tariff question with especial regard to the interests of labor
• Resolutionen der Generalstaaten 1576-1625: niederländische Regesten zur späten Hansegeschichte
• William Melrose in China 1845-1855: the letters of a Scottish tea merchant

Please note that access to the majority of these resources is available onsite at the IHR, or offsite for staff and students of the IHR only. 

• British History Online
• Charles Booth's London: poverty maps and police notebooks
• Global commodities: trade, exploration and cultural exchange
• JSTOR
• The making of the modern world: the Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literarture (1450-1850), (1851-1914)

• Agricultural History (Vol.1-, 1927- )
• Business History (Vol. 1-54, 1958-2012)
• Economic History Review (Vol.1-, 1927- )
• European Review of Economic History (Vol.1-, 1997- )
• Explorations in Economic History (Vol. 15-62, 1978-2016)
• Financial History Review (Vol. 1-, 1994- )
• Histoire et Sociétés Rurales (Vol. 1-, 1994- )
• International Labor and Working Class History (No. 33-, 1988- )
• Journal of Economic History (Vol.1-, 1941- )
• Labour History Review (Vol. 55-, 1990- )

The library has an extensive collection of University of London PhD and MPhil history theses from the early twentieth century to the twenty-first. Some titles relevant to economic history include:

• The drapers and the drapery trade of late medieval London
• The genesis of English banking, with particular reference to the private banking of the Goldsmiths, the evolution of English paper money, and the early history of the Bank of England
• I.G. Farbenindustrie A.G. and Imperial Chemical Industries Limited: strategies for growth and survival, 1925-1953
• The mercery trade and the Mercers' Company of London: from the 1130s to 1348
• The missing pillar: economic planning and the machinery of government during the Labour administration of 1945-51
• Society and administration in late eighteenth century Guanajuato: with especial reference to the silver mining industry
• Troubled waters: cod war, fishing disputes, and Britain's fight for the freedom of the high seas, 1948-1964

Within the IHR Wohl Library

Browse collection guides to find material relevant to your particular area of interest. All the library's national collections will have a significant amount of material about aspects of economic history. Additionally there will be relevant information in the following collections:

• International Relations
• Military

Other libraries, archives, organisations

• Bishopsgate Institute Library
• The British Library
• LSE Library
• The National Archives
• Senate House Library, especially the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature

Contact us if you would like help on finding or using our collections, or if you have any comments or suggestions about the content of this guide. We are happy to help.

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