A Note on Bread Prices in London and Glasgow, 1788–1815
- 1 December 1970
- journal article
- other
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in The Journal of Economic History
- Vol. 30 (4) , 854-860
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700106746
Abstract
There has been comparatively little research into regional prices in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, and historians have customarily relied upon indices of London's wholesale and contract prices to indicate the fluctuations and trends of British prices as a whole. Our knowledge of price movements, and especially of retail price movements, in other parts of the country is therefore scanty. It is not suggested that this situation may easily be altered, but evidence of bread prices in Glasgow at least may add further brush strokes to those which “supplied the first rough outlines on an otherwise blank canvas.”Keywords
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