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35: Figuring out: the spread of Hindu-Arabic numerals in the European tradition of practical mathematics (13th-16th centuries)

Raffaele Danna

34: Mining Family History Society Burials

Gill Newton

33: Adam Smith revisited: coal and the location of the woollen manufacture in England before mechanization, c. 1500-1820

Keith Sugden, Sebastian A.J. Keibek and Leigh Shaw-Taylor

32: Dirty float or clean intervention? The Bank of England on the foreign exchange market, 1952-72

Alain Naef

31: The global rise of patent expertise in the late nineteenth century

David Pretel

30: Institutions for Contract Enforcement: Insiders, Outsiders, and Insurance in Early Modern London

A.B. Leonard

29: BY-EMPLOYMENTS IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE FOR ESTIMATING HISTORICAL MALE OCCUPATIONAL STRUCTURES

Sebastian A.J. Keibek

28: Correcting the probate inventory record for wealth bias

Sebastian A.J. Keibek

27: Allocating labourers to occupational (sub-)sectors using regression techniques

Sebastian A.J. Keibek

26: Using probate data to determine historical male occupational structures

Sebastian A.J. Keibek

25: The Rise and Fall of the German Stock Market, 1870-1938

David Chambers, Carsten Burhop and Brian Cheffins

24: The pay of labourers and unskilled men on London building sites, 1660 – 1770

Judy Stephenson

23: Where are the missing girls? Gender discrimination in mid-19th century Spain

Francisco Beltrán Tapia and Domingo Gallego

22: What caused Chicago bank failures in the Great Depression? A look at the 1920s

Natacha Postel-Vinay

21: Financial contagion and market intervention in the 1772-3 credit crisis

Paul Kosmetatos

20: CAN INFLATION EXPECTATIONS BE MEASURED USING COMMODITY FUTURES PRICES?

Rasheed Saleuddin

19: The winding up of the Ayr Bank, 1772-1816

Paul Kosmetatos

18: Can general purpose technology theory explain economic growth? Electrical power as a case study

Cristiano Andrea Ristuccia and Solomos Solomou

17: From sovereign nations to federal states. Creating stable systems of public finance in America and Germany: lessons for the Eurozone

James Macdonald

16: Deceptive data? The New Survey of London Life and Labour 1928 – 31

Simon T Abernethy

15: Giffen behaviour in Irish famine markets: an empirical study

Charles Read

14: War, Conquest and Local Merchants: The Role of Credit in the Peripheral Military Administration of the Hispanic Monarchy during the First Half of the Sixteenth Century

Jose Miguel Escribano Paez

13: The Black Swan of the Golden Periphery: The Ottoman Empire during the Classical Gold Standard Era

Ali Coskun Tuncer

12: Family reconstitution in an urban context: some observations and methods

Gill Newton

11: Stabilizing monetary systems: sterling's currency and credit markets from the 12th to the 21st C

Anthony Hotson

9: Farewell to prices and incomes policies: Conservative economic policy-making, 1974-79

Adrian Williamson

8: Mistresses and marriage: or, a short history of the Mrs

Amy Louise Erickson

7: Marital status and economic activity: interpreting spinsters, wives and widows in pre-census population listings

Amy Louise Erickson

6: The First Global Emerging Markets Investor: Foreign & Colonial Investment Trust 1880-1913

David Chambers

5: Pledging and Credit Markets in Medieval England

Chris Briggs

4: Britain's money supply experiment, 1971-73

Duncan Needham

4: The creation of a ‘census’ of adult male employment for England and Wales for 1817

P. M. Kitson

2: Retail Ratios in the Netherlands, c. 1670 - c. 1815

Sheilagh Ogilvie

1: Choices and Constraints in the Pre-Industrial Countryside

Sheilagh Ogilvie