Where the data comes from
Publications, archives and official datasets used to construct the published tables.
2021
A Biophysical Model of the Industrial Revolution
Christopher Kennedy
2017
A Millennium of Macroeconomic Data for the UK
Bank of England
1995
Accounting for management as an expression of eighteenth century rationalism: two case studies
Robert B. Williams
2022
After the great inventions: technological change in UK cotton spinning, 1780-1835
Peter Maw, Peter Solar, Aidan Kane, John S. Lyons
2007
British East India Company clerks and salaries, 1760-1850
Hector Macdonald Boot
2010
British economic growth and the business cycle, 1700-1870: annual estimates
Stephen N. Broadberry, Bas van Leeuwen
2021
Capital and Economic Growth in Britain, 1270-1870
Stephen Broadberry, Alexandra de Pleijt
2005
Cotton Textiles and the Great Divergence: Lancashire, India and Shifting Competitive Advantage, 1600-1850
Stephen Broadberry, Bishnupriya Gupta
2026-07-17
EconSim Ladder v2 capital evidence contracts
EconSim project
2023
Factor prices and induced technical change in the industrial revolution
R. Otojanov, Roger Fouquet, Brigitte Granville
2018-03-15
Federico-Tena World Trade Historical Database: United Kingdom
Giovanni Federico, Antonio Tena Junguito
2013
Liverpool and the Raw Cotton Trade: A Study of the Port and its Merchant Community, 1770-1815
Alexey Krichtal
1988
National Statistics, 1760-1920
Charles Feinstein
2015
ONS England and Wales population estimates, 1838-2014 legacy workbook
Office for National Statistics
2025-09-26
ONS UK population estimates, 1838 to 2024
Office for National Statistics
1986-07
Physical and Socio-Economic Characteristics of Boys Recruited into the Marine Society, 1770-1873
Roderick Floud
1924
Samuel Oldknow and the Arkwrights: The Industrial Revolution at Stockport and Marple
George Unwin, Arthur Hulme, George Taylor
2025-05-04
Segmentation and gender wage disparities in the early industrial workforce: Insights from Arkwright's Lumford Mill, 1786-1811
Alexander Tertzakian
2018-03
St Luke Chelsea Workhouse admissions and discharges
Tim Hitchcock, John Black, Peter Higginbotham
2018-03
St Martin in the Fields Workhouse Admission and Discharge Registers, 1725-1819
Jeremy Boulton, Leonard Schwarz, London Lives
1910
The History of Wages in the Cotton Trade During the Past Hundred Years
George Henry Wood
1797
The State of the Poor, volume 2, cotton manufacture report
Frederick Morton Eden