Brunt, Liam; Cannon, Edmund - In: European Review of Economic History 17 (2013) 3, pp. 318-339
From 1770 to 1914, the British Government collected weekly price and quantity data for all types of grain traded in many market towns; these 'Corn Returns' were published in the London Gazette. We computerized the data published between 1770 and 1864, totalling around 6 million data points. Here...