Economic History

A solid middle-class clan who exported English wool to foreign markets, the Celys have left behind them a graphic record of their private affairs and shrewd commercial dealings, as Alison Hanham here finds.

George Woodcock compares Canada's two famous gold rushes and their differing economic and social effects on the Pacific West.

Some commentators predict that the 21st century will be the ‘Asian century’, marking a significant shift in power from West to East. If so, it will not be so different from the global order of the 19th century, says Thomas DuBois.

N.P. Macdonald explains how modern Brazil owes its extensive frontiers, and the discovery of many of its natural riches, to the journeys far inland, in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, of pioneers in search of slaves.

D.W. Brogan

The Monds were significant figures not only as the architects of a great modern industry but as representatives of a phase of industrial development that nowadays belongs to the past. Here Dr. W.H. Chaloner traces the rise of these determined individualists.

L.E. Harris shows how, by draining the Fens, Charles I hoped to replenish his Exchequer; but that the Dutch engineers he employed began a work that still continues.

Hugh Latimer unearths the role of the rubber plant in the story of empire and Malayan nation-building.

W.H. Chaloner profiles the contribution of Francis Egerton, the last Duke of Bridgewater, to the canal systems of Lancashire, and England at large.

J.D. Chambers pays an historical visit to the regional capital of the English East Midlands.

J. Guthrie Oliver discusses a major source of funds for both medieval England and the Church.

W.H. Chaloner considers the life and times of one of Georgian England's foremost industrial figures.

Arnold N. Shimmin pays an historical visit to the inventive Yorkshire city.