Business, Economic and Labour History

Business, Economic and Labour History is a collection of digitized primary sources from Britain and America covering a variety of 19th and 20th century topics, including Keynesian economic policy in postwar Britain; international labor movements; the London Stock Exchange; and the papers of important economists. Highlights include:

• The complete run of the London Stock Exchange Official Year-book for 1875-1945
• A complete run of The Mechanical Engineer for 1897-1917
• The weekly trade journal Oil News from 1912-1939
• The Papers of William Stanley Jevons, British theorist and one of the chief architects of modern economics
• The Papers of Carl Menger, founder of the Austrian school of marginal analysis 
• The complete manuscript diaries of the British Labour politician Hugh Dalton, 1916-1960, covering his extensive career as an MP and government minister
• The working papers of John Maynard Keynes and his private office during his second period of service at the Treasury from 1940-1946
• The papers of David A. Morse, Director-General of the International Labour Office in Geneva from 1948 to 1970
• The Papers of the Economic Section (The National Archives class T 230) from the 1940s, illustrating the implementation of Keynesian economic principles

The original materials were sourced from:

• John Rylands Research Institute and Library, University of Manchester
• Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library, Princeton University
• The National Archives, UK
• London School of Economics and Political Science, London
• Library of Birmingham
• The Bodleian Library, Oxford
• Cambridge University Library
• William R Perkins Library, Duke University