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The article reviews periodical literature on economic history that was published in 2011. Topics noted include the origins of medieval common rights systems, statistics from the record-keeping text "Little Domesday Book," and gender roles in medieval Europe. Also addressed are the history of British maritime trade, the payment of compensation to British slave owners following abolition, and the history of the Scottish banking system. In addition, the history of property rights, cultural aspects of feminism, and post-World War II British politics are discussed.

The article assesses the economics of the Scottish gate-money football industry from 1890 to 1914. The late nineteenth century was a period of rapid commercialization of sport in Great Britain. As has been shown, however, not all the entrepreneurs involved were motivated primarily by the profit motive. Whereas it is clear from their prospectuses that many companies concerned with cycling, horse-racing, and ice-rinks were looking to deliver dividends to their shareholders, the committeemen and directors of most Scottish soccer clubs changed their sports organizations into business enterprises and adopted company status with the intention of winning matches and championships rather than making money. Whether utility-maximization was more common to team than to other sports remains to be investigated. Recent research has suggested that cricket also belongs to the utility end of the motivational spectrum. Why the degree of profit/utility mix varied both between and within sports is also a subject for future research, although the work on Scottish Football suggests that the occupational composition of the shareholders and directors may have had a role to play.