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The British Historical Statistics project will be launched at the Economic History Society Annual Conference, University of Durham, 27 March 2010. The project is led by three general editors:
- Roger Middleton (Bristol): late nineteenth-twenty first century, macroeconomic history, public finance
- Nigel Goose (Hertfordshire): medieval-early modern
- Michael Turner (Hull): eighteenth-nineteenth century, agrarian and beyond
This project will provide new and substantially revised and repurposed editions of British Historical Statistics which were first edited by Mitchell and Deane in 1962. The editions will cover the medieval period to the contemporary world and take advantage of the ongoing expansion of the statistical knowledge of the past. The expansion of fields of history that utilise statistical data and the provision of large (if disparate) sets of online data mean that such an initiative is timely and important.
As well as providing data for research projects, the new editions will also have materials for History students and aims to provide them with the numeracy skills they need for their studies and for employment post graduation.
The general editors are keen to receive feedback on the project.
