Economic history
Economic history gradually emerged as a discipline in its own right in Britain from the late 19th century onwards, culminating in the foundation of the Economic History Society in 1926. In the post-war years it grew rapidly, with the establishment of a number of separate departments, often combined with social history. In the 1960s a new, quantitative economic history emerged, sometimes known as cliometrics, which sort to harness the emerging power of computers to apply economic models to historical evidence. In recent years its popularity as a separate subject has waned, but many of its ideas and approaches have been assimilated into mainstream history.
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- Historians:
- Beresford, Maurice
Cairncross, Alexander Kirkland
Carus-Wilson, Eleanora Mary
Clapham, John Harold
Cobb, Richard Charles
Cole, George Douglas Howard
Coleman, Donald Cuthbert
Hill, John Edward Christopher
Hilton, Rodney Howard
Hobsbawm, Eric J.
Postan, Michael Moissey
Power, Eileen
Smout, Thomas Christopher
Tawney, Richard Henry
Thirsk, Joan
Thompson, Edward Palmer
Thompson, Francis Michael Longstreth
Unwin, George
Wrigley, Edward Anthony - Institutions:
- Economic History Society
- Themes:
- Business history
Cliometrics
Environmental history
Marxist history
Quantitative history
Social history
Related publications
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Roger E. Backhouse, 'The future of the history of economic thought in Britain', History of Political Economy, 34, Annual supplement (2002), 79–97
Roger E. Backhouse, 'History of economics, economics and economic history in Britain 1824–2000', History of Economic Thought, 11, 1 (2004), 107–27
Maxine Berg, 'The first women economic historians', Economic History Review, 45, 2 (1992), 308–29
D. C. Coleman, 'History, economic history and the numbers game', Historical Journal, 38, 3 (1995), 635–46
The Study of Economic History : Collected Inaugural Lectures 1893–1970, ed. N.B. Harte (London, 1971)
