Mapping the Monetary and Financial Sectors, 1790-1850

The main purpose of this small pilot grant was to start exploring the microfiche data from the Gayer-Rostow-Schwartz volumes on the Growth and Fluctuations in the British Economy, 1790-1850. We have transcribed the series from Section III and from Section IV of the microfiche, which collected data in the 1930s and 1940s from a number of published sources. We have plotted the series and are making the series available to economic historians for research purposes. Our work on the management of debt and the process of co-ordinating monetary and fiscal policy in extreme war conditions remains in progress. But aspects have been presented at a conference in Professor Martin Weale’s honour at NIESR in January 2017, at the Royal Economic Society Conference at Bristol in April 2017 and will form a keynote address at the Money, Macro Finance Group Annual Conference at Kings College London in September 2017.