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Historical Consumer Prices: Europe

Guide to sources for historical consumer price data including currencies used, foreign exchange conversions, and present value calculations.

Europe

  1. Changing Values in Medieval Scotland: A Study of Prices, Money, and Weights and Measures
    Book:  HB235 .S4 G46 1995 Hayden Stacks
     
  2. Handbook of Medieval Exchange
    Book:  HG3942 .S68x Hayden Stacks

    Lists exchange rates for various currencies in Europe and the Mediterranian area.
     
  3. Illustrations of the Manners and Expences of Antient Times in England, in the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth Centuries, Deduced from the Accompts of Churchwardens, and Other Authentic Documents, Collected from Various Parts of the Kingdom, with Explanatory Notes 
    Book:  DA320 .N42 1973 Storage Stacks
    E-book (ASU access only):  http://library.lib.asu.edu/record=b4684554
     
  4. Life in a Noble Household: 1641-1700 
    Book:  DA377.2 .R8 T45 1959 Hayden Stacks
     
  5. Money and Exchange in Europe and America, 1600-1775
    Book: HG219 .M33 Hayden Stacks
     
  6. Money, Prices, and Civilization in the Mediterranean World, Fifth to Seventeenth Century
    Book:  HG243 .C5 Hayden Stacks
     
  7. Money, Prices, and Foreign Exchange in Fourteenth-Century France
    Book:  HG976 .M5 Hayden Stacks
     
  8. The National Archives (UK) Currency Converter
    Website: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/currency/

    Converts between past and present-day money values in the UK and shows the buying power of the pound in terms of wheat, wool and/or building trade labor for various years between 1270 and the present.
     
  9. Prices and Wages in England from the Twelfth to the Nineteenth Century 
    Book:  HB235 .G7 B4x 1966 v.1 Hayden Stacks
     
  10. Prices, Food and Wages in Scotland, 1550-1780 
    Book:  HB235 .S4 G53 1995 Hayden Stacks
     
  11. The Writer's Guide to Everyday Life in Regency and Victorian England, from 1811-1901 
    Book:  DA533 .H93 1998 Hayden Stacks
     

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