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The article presents a list of papers related to economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland published in different journals. Some of the papers are: "Sixteenth-Century Probate Documents From Manchester," by M.J. Alexander; "The Buckinghamshire Posse Comitatus," by I.F.W. Beckett; "The Governesses: Letters from the Colonies, 1862-82," by P. Clarke; "Annals of the Labouring Poor: Social Change and Agrarian England," by K.D.M. Snell; "Systems of Land Holding Between Landowners and Farmers," by R. Stratton; "The Timing and Pattern of Technological Development in English Agriculture," by R.J. Sullivan; "Dearth and Marketing of Agricultural Produce," by W. Thwaites; "Rural Rebels in Southern England in the 1830s," by R. Wells; "The Union of 1707 and Scottish Development " by T.M. Devine and others. Some other papers are: "Studies in Late Anglo-Saxon Settlement," by M.L. Faull; "Comparative National Balance Sheets," by R.W. Goldsmiths; "The Cambridge Historical Encyclopedia of Great Britain and Ireland," by C. Haigh and the like.

The article discusses several periodical literature on British economic and social history published in various journals. Some of the papers mentioned in the article include, "The Social and Economic Effects of Plague in the Low Countries, 1349-1500," by W.P. Blockmans, "The Effects of the Black Death on English Higher Education," by William J. Courtenay, "Bury St. Edmunds and the Populations of Late Medieval English Towns, 1270-1530," by Robert S. Gottfried. In the investigation of demographic change the period of protracted population decline during the later middle ages continues to attract the attention of most scholars, with epidemiological studies about the origins, diffusion and effects of plague taking the centre of the stage. Students of English medieval demographic history have revealed considerable variations in the incidence of plague within particular epidemics at a point in time. Yet few, if any, would suggest any lessening of the importance of the disease in determining mortality through time and subscribe to the scepticism of other authors concerning the importance of plague as a determinant of the prolonged population decline of the later middle ages.

This article presents information on periodical literature published in the year 1973 on social and economic history. The technique of dating hedges by the number of species growing in them is a fairly recent one and scholar Geoffrey Hewlett in his paper in published in the periodical "Agricultural History Review," applies it to Otford. In "Reconstructing a Historical Landscape From Field Documentary Evidence: Otford in Kent," he attempts to map the area with reference to hedges and he reminds readers that soil conditions and the availability of shrub species grown locally must be taken into account. In the same journal, scholar Wendy Davies in her learned paper on "Unciae: Land Measurement in the Liber Landavensis" notes that the measurement was used only on lands between the rivers Usk and Wye. She believes that the term may derive from the use in that area of a Roman technical term signifying an heir's portion and that it derived a secondary meaning of a holding and a tertiary meaning of a unit of measurement of about 500 acres.

This article presents information on periodical literature that was published during the year 1976 on the subject of economic and social history during the Medieval Period in Great Britain. The paper "The Mauduits and Their Chamberlainship of the Exchequer," by Edith Emma Mason that was published in a 1976 issue of the periodical "Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research" throws light on the office of the chamberlainships, one of which the family held from the late eleventh century until 1268, and also upon the estates built up by them. In the periodical "Journal of Medieval History," writer Gerald L. Harriss demonstrates how in England taxation gave Parliament a central role in the medieval polity. Because Parliament had an inescapable obligation to grant taxation for common defense, the Commons sought to criticize and control the handling and expenditure of the tax. P.H.W. Booth in his paper "Taxation and Public Order: Cheshire in 1353" in a 1976 issue of the periodical "Northern History," writes on social disorder in the county but says little about taxation. These three contributions, although important, have only a marginal significance for economic historians.

Presents the author's opinions on articles related to the economic and social history of Great Britain after 1850, which have been published in various periodicals. Views on the manufacturing industry in Great Britain; Views on literature related to international trade; Discussion on labor supply; Discussion on vagrancy.

Presents the author's opinions on articles related to the economic and social history of Great Britain during the period 1500-1700, which have been published in various periodicals. Views on the industrial and financial history of England; Discussion on the foreign trade of Great Britain; Views on social planning; Discussion on the economic conditions in Great Britain.

Presents the author's opinions on articles related to the economic and social history of England, which have been published in various periodicals. Information on articles related to the economy and society of late medieval England, which have been published in various periodicals; Views on article related to the economic changes in England in the period 1977-1982; Discussion on the topographical evolution of London from the seventh century to early ninth-century; Views on literature related to the industrial history of England.

This article presents a survey of economic and social history of Great Britain as published in various journals. In the area of agrarian studies, a number of articles have been published by geographers and archaeologists this year which illustrate the exciting developments which are currently transforming the picture of the landscape and settlements of early medieval Britain. They trace the intimate connection between pagan cemetery and settlement sites on the light, poorer, upland soils from the early fifth to the early eighth centuries and examine their subsequent abandonment when new settlements were established, often on the wooded clays of the valley bottoms. Demographic history sets the tone for this year's contributions on late medieval economic and social history with a series of articles which reveal an extraordinary breadth of scholarly endeavour. John A. H. Wylie and Leslie H. Collier begin controversially with their study of "The English Sweating Sickness: A Reappraisal", in the "Journal of the History of Medicine," re-examining the aetiology of a disease which has attracted much attention in recent years.

The article presents a list of documents published in the journal 'The Economic and Social History of Great Britain and Ireland" in 1981. Some of them are as, "The Ancient Laws, Customs and Orders of the Miners in the King's Forest of Mendipp in the County of Somerset"; "The Bishop's Transcripts of the Registers of the Parish of Gemdon, Warwickshire, 1742-1846"; "The Ipswich Probate Inventories, 1583-1631"; "West Lothian Hearth Tax," by D. Adamson; "John Wesley's England: A Nineteenth-Century Pictorial History Based on an Eighteenth Century Journal," edited by R. Bews et al.

The article focuses on studies related to the history of the period since 1850 published in several periodicals in 1979. Whatever the reason for relatively greater wage and salary-push in Britain vis a vis other countries after 1945, the problem before 1939 was of a different kind and in a provocative article of wide interest, "Searching for an Explanation of Unemployment in Interwar Britain," in Journal of Political Economy, Daniel K. Benjamin and Levis A. Kochin resurrect a thesis of the time that high unemployment benefits substantially raised unemployment levels--they believe that benefits can explain the greater part of interwar unemployment. The authors have undoubtedly performed a service by ensuring an intensive reexamination of the problem of interwar unemployment for the conclusions they advance have pushed the revisionist case too far and are hardly plausible to those familiar with the period.

The article focuses on several articles concerning economic and social history that appeared in various journals in 1975. In the "English Historical Review," S. Pistono in his study of "Henry IV and the English Privateers" comes to roughly comparable conclusions about seamen too important for the defense of the realm to be sacrificed to Flemish susceptibilities whatever the apparent advantages of conceding anything to them might be. And in his Raleigh Lecture for 1973 published in 1975 in the "Proceedings of the British Academy," R.B. Pugh in "Some Reflections of a Medieval Criminologist" finds that the off-scourings of London, England's poor, not a group, one might have thought, with much influence with the influential, were more often set free than convicted for such common crimes as making off with someone else's overcoat, and notes that although some were arraigned for murder, none was accused of infanticide, at least during the twenty-eight years of Edward I's reign for which he has examined the Newgate gaol deliveries, and very few of arson or rape.

The article lists publications on the economic and social history of Great Britain and Ireland. They include, "Population in the Past: Family Reconstruction by Computer," by R.S. Schofield, "The History of the Dutch Slave Trade: a bibliographical Survey," by P.C. Emmer, "Sixteenth-century fiscal sources for the social and economic history of the Flemish countryside," by N. Maddens, and "The socialist trade unions after the First World War (1919-21)," by M. Nauwelaerts.

The article focuses on several articles on the economic and social history of Great Britain, from 1500 to 1700, published in several journals. No central article on trade is found in this year's trawl. Two interesting contributions are worth notice, however. In the "Journal of Economic History," David Galenson presents new evidence on the behavior of slave prices in the Barbados market, in "The Atlantic Slave Trade and the Barbados Market, 1673-1723." After an early fall of price, which might have encouraged Chesapeake farmers to invest in slaves instead of indentured servants, thus extending slavery on the mainland, prices firmed and then rose steadily. This in turn encouraged slavers to ship out children from Africa and perhaps set in train the process of breeding in the New World. Studies in economic policy and economic thought for 1500-1700 are apparently non-existent this year. It seems that useful work is being done in these fields but that little is yet ready for publication.