Library & Cultural Services: Economics: Economic History

Economic History

CLIO-Infra
Coordinated by the Dutch International Institute of Social History, aims to collate global economic history data for 1800- with a focus on economic growth and inequality.

Cross-National Time-Series Data Archive

Provides annual data from 1815 onward (where available) for all countries. Nearly 200 demographic, political, legislative, economic and social science variables available in Excel format. CNTS is useful for broad cross-country comparisons requiring long time series data.

Economic History Association
Premier US-based organisation in the field of economic history. Publishes the Journal of Economic History. See also its EH.Net list of datasets available to researchers covering specific topics in economic history.
Economic History Society
Major UK-based organisation & publisher of the Economic History Review (which contains an annual bibliography in the final issue each year: List of publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland).
European Historical Economics Society
Europe-wide organisation devoted to economic history. Publishes the journal European Review of Economic History.
From Baghdad to London: Unraveling Urban Development in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa, 800-1800
Dataset compiled by Bosker et al on 116 cities in Middle East & North Africa with a population over 10 000. Combined with the Bairoch (1988) et al dataset - https://github.com/JakeRuss/bairoch-1988
Article by Bosker et al available at:
https://direct.mit.edu/rest/article-pdf/95/4/1418/1917366/rest_a_00284.pdf
Groningen Growth and Development Centre (Historical Development)
Offers three datasets:
Maddison Historical Statistics - estimates of GDP per capita for countries from AD 1 to 2010 (based on the print publication - World economy: historical statistics 2003, A. Maddison HC 15 - library, floor 3)
Historical National Accounts - detailed estimates of GDP (down to industrial/sector level) for countries, 19th & 20th centuries
Modern Times - data on technology & economic performance for European countries in 1910, 1935 & 1950
International Historical Statistics
By B.R. Mitchell covering the period from 1750-2010. Also available in print (to 2000)
International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam)
The world's largest documentation and research centre in the field of social history. See its Social History Portal to digitised collections of social and labour history.
Macrohistory Lab Bonn (Jorda-Schularick-Taylor Macrohistory Database)
Freely available high quality data offering annual economic & financial indicators for 17 advanced economies from 1870-

World economic historical statistics. 2005, C. Sabillon. HC 15

Some good reference sources in this field include:

EH.net Encyclopedia of Economic & Business History
Freely available via the Economic History Association website, this contains some useful articles. Bear in mind that many have not been updated since the early 2000s
Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
Multi-volume work edited by the respected economist Joel Mokyr. HC 15 (floor 3).
Palgrave encyclopedia of world economic history since 1750

For historical news sources that may be useful for research on more recent economic history (1840-) see:

Economist Historical Archive 1843-2015

The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2015 is the fully searchable complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper which is essential reading for anyone engaged in politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide.

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Financial Times Historical Archive 1888-2016

The Financial Times Historical Archive, 1888-2016, is the complete searchable facsimile run of the world's most authoritative daily business newspaper. Every article and advertisement ever printed in the paper can be searched and browsed individually and page by page.

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