W. R. Scott, Adam Smith, Master Mind Lecture' (Proceedings of the British Academy, vol. xi.); J. B. Hollander, 'Adam Smith, 1776-1926' (Journal of Political Economy, April 1927).
I. N. A. Briscoe, Economic Policy of Robert Walpole; E. F. Heckscher,
The Continental System (Carnegie Endowment).
II. Huskisson's Speeches: ii. 465, Effects of the Free Trade System on the
Silk Manufacture, Feb. 24, 1826; iii. 253, Civil Government of Canada,
May 2, 1828; A. Brady, William Huskisson and Liberal Reform.
III. G. M. Trevelyan, The Life of John Bright; Disraeli's Coningsby.
IV. Sydney Buxton, Mr. Gladstone, A Study (alternatively, ibid., Finance
and Politics, 2 vols.).
V. L. C. A. Knowles, The Industrial and Commercial Revolutions in Great
Britain during the Nineteenth Century (Part vi.); J. M. Keynes, The
End of Laissez-Faire; E. M. H. Lloyd, Experiments in State Control
(Carnegie Endowment).
VI. R. H. Tawney, Introduction to Discourse upon Usury (by Thomas Wilson); J. Sykes, The Amalgamation Movement in English Banking, 1825-1924; H. S. Foxwell, A History of Barclays Bank' (review article, Economic Journal, Sept. 1927).
VII. N. S. B. Gras, Introduction to Economic History (outlining the conception
of the Metropolitan market); H. R. Fox Bourne, English Merchants.
VIII. D. J. Owen, The Port of London Yesterday and To-day; A. W. Kirkaldy,
British Shipping.
IX. S. and B. Webb, English Local Government, The Story of the King's High-
way; W. T. Jackman, Transportation in Modern England (2 vols.).
X. H. G. Lewin, Early British Railways, 1801-1844; E. Cleveland-Stevens,
English Railways, their Development and their Relation to the State.
XI. Evelyn Murray, The Post Office (Whitehall Series); Encyclopædia
Britannica, sub 'Telegraph' and 'Telephone.'
XII. R. E. Prothero, English Farming Past and Present; J. L. and B. Hammond, The Village Labourer.
XIII. T. H. Marshall, James Watt; J. Lord, Capital and Steam Power.
XIV. T. S. Ashton, Iron and Steel in the Industrial Revolution; H. Bessemer,
An Autobiography (out of print but used fully in A. P. Usher, The
Industrial History of England, c. 13).
XV. H. Heaton, The Yorkshire Woollen and Worsted Industries; G. W. Daniels, The Early English Cotton Industry; Dobson and Barlow, Ltd., Samuel Crompton.
XVI. H. Hamilton, The English Brass and Copper Industries; V. W. Bladen, 'The Potteries in the Industrial Revolution' (Economic Journal, Econ. Hist. No. 1, Jan. 1926); Clive Day, Distribution of Industrial Occupations in England.
XVII. M. D. George, London Life in the Eighteenth Century; D. Marshall, The English Poor in the Eighteenth Century; A. Redford, Labour Migration in England, 1800-1850; M. C. Buer, Health, Wealth and Population. XVIII. F. J. Klingberg, The Anti-Slavery Movement in England; G. D. H. Cole, (1) Robert Owen, (2) William Cobbett; Disraeli's Sybil.
XIX. A. V. Dicey, Law and Public Opinion in England; S. and B. Webb, History of Trade Unionism.
XX. Encyclopædia Britannica, sub Insurance' and 'Friendly Societies'; S. and B. Webb, The Consumers' Co-operative Movement; C. R. Fay, Co-partnership in Industry.
(1) Pre-1800: G. Unwin, Studies in Economic History.
(2) Post-1800: J. H. Clapham, An Economic History of Modern Britain (The Early Railway Age, 1820-1850).
Students should have ready access to three books:
(1) Dictionary of National Biography. Epitome.
(2) Chronological Table of the Statutes (By Authority, 1917–18).
(3) Parliamentary Papers, 1801-1900 (P. S. King. Index).
ABERDEEN, Earl of, 60, 70
Acts of Parliament. See LEGISLATION
Acworth, Sir W., 206
Adamson, D., 158
Adderley, C. (Lord Norton), 79
Addington, 39, 41
Africa: trade reserved to English ships,
49; rivalry for trade in, 80 n., 81;
English trade in, 124; slave trade,
125; exports to, 141-2; railways
in, 146; slaves from, 156; trade
freed, 318
Agriculture, 221-50; protection of,
46-8, 65-8; benefits from railways,
197; revolt of labourers, 249, 352;
industrial revolution in, 304; and
healthy diet, 361; and Cobbett, 370;
and trade unionism, 402; and co-
operative stores, 437-8; producers'
co-operation in, 439
Allan, Sir H., 168
Allan, W., 389
Allen, R., 210, 322
Alsace-Lorraine: coal and iron, 138,
277-8; and Heilmann, 296
Aluminium, 208
Clothing Workers
(Chicago), 404-5
Amalgamated Society, of Carpenters
and Joiners, 389; of Engineers,
388-9; of Railway Servants, 394-5
Amalgamated Union of Co-operative
Employees, 437
America: Adam Smith on, 7, 11; pro-
hibition in, 8, 126; and Napoleonic
War, 31-3; protection in, 34-5, 43,
48; and English trade policy, 49-52;
reciprocity with Canada, 53; tobacco
preference, 54; agricultural exports,
68; and imperialism, 80-1;
effort, 90; dollar exchange, 98; and
British crises, 103-4; banking, 118;
effect of discovery of, 124;
running, 126; shipping destroyed
by pirates, 134; and List, 137;
rivalry with Great Britain, 138-40;
exports of manufactures to, 142-3;
and Welsh tinplate industry, 146–7;
Panama Canal, 161; and shipping,
165-8; automobiles in, 206–9; com-
munications with, 211-15; wheat
exports, 224-5; wheat grading, 231;
tenancy, 247; rural credit, 247;
potatoes in, 248; invented binder,
249; steamboats in, 256; engineers
in, 259; coal mining, 263-5; iron
for England, 266; malleable iron
in, 270; steel production in, 275-8;
tariff on silks, 284; cotton industry,
287; cotton from, 308; meat pack-
ing, 311; shoe and clothing in-
dustries, 313-14; trusts in, 321;
immigration, 328; and food problem,
334; negroes in, 347; Owen and
Cobbett in, 371-2; Rotary in, 380;
use of injunction in, 396-401; first
insurance table, 412; co-operation
in, 420; milling, 430
American Federation of Labour, 376,
404-5
Amicable Society for a Perpetual
Assurance Office, 411
Amsterdam: Hopes of, 129; granaries
in, 135; ship canal, 189
Ancient Order of Foresters, 407
Andreades, A., 101
Anglesey: copper mines, 142, 306;
suspension bridge, 306; Williams of,
320
Anti-Corn Law League: and Adam
Smith, 19; campaign, 66-7; George
Hope, prize essayist, 176; Man-
chester, seat of, 201; a manufac-
turers' association, 320; and factory
reform, 354; resembles anti-slavery
movement, 366; taught labour to
campaign, 388
Anti-Slavery Society, 366
Applegarth, R., 389
Apprenticeship, 344-6; parish children,
348, 355; abuse in chimney sweep-
ing, 357
Argentine: Barings and, 130; railways
in, 146, 198; wheat, 224; beef, 225;
wool, 282
Arkwright, R., 252; water frame,
293-4; carding machine, 295; and
Oldknow, 302; roller spinning, 303;
Lancashire of, 324
Armstrong Whitworth, 155, 208
Ashton, T. S., 142, 266-7
Asia, trade with, 49, 138
Asphalt, invented, 179
Austen, J., 174, 377
Austin, 207-8
Australia: and Tasmania, 53; pre-
ference, 56; Commonwealth Act,
84; penny post, 144; shipping to, 161,
165; railway gauge, 192; wheat ex-
ports from, 224; mutton, 225; choco-
late trade with, 312; gold and im-
migration, 329; labour problems in,
402; C.W.S. in, 429; wheat pool in,
438
Austria and Navigation Acts, 49;
loans to, 100; trade with Great
Britain, 137; railways in, 146; wool
from, 282
Automobile in U.S.A., 124; in Eng-
land, 154, 174, 178–9, 218; challenge
of, 207-9; antidote to socialism,
273; a new industry, 285, 313
Avebury, Lord, 391
Ayrshire, 432
BACKHOUSE, J., 109, 114; and Edward
Pease, 193
Baernreither, Dr., 406
Baines, T., 157
Bakewell, R., 237-8, 282; and demand
for pottery, 308; and health, 361
Balance of trade, 6, 148-50
Balfour, Mr., 59
Baltic Exchange, 135
Baltic Ports: blockade, 32; timber
from, 54, 140; trade with, 123, 129;
herring, 134; and Dutch, 135; coal
to, 148; woollens to, 281; Scottish
trade with, 286
Bank of Amsterdam, 100, 129
Bank of England: in Napoleonic War,
42; Peel's reform, 69-70; founded,
92; note circulation, 93; suspension,
94; resumption, 95; small notes,
96; gold bars, 96; Act of 1844...97;
gold and discount rate, 98-9;
general history of, 99-105; joins
Clearing House, 107; monopoly
challenged, 110; and joint-stock
banks, 112; difficult beginning, 127;
monopoly of, 318; and Usury laws,
385
Banking: Peel's reform, 66, 69–70;
91-119; Dutch success in, 129;
Germans study English methods,
138; and railway finance, 194; im-
portance of, 260; Scotland's con-
tribution, 318; C.W.S., 417-19
Baring, A., 130
Baring, Sir Francis, 129-30
Baring, Sir F. T., 60
Baring, House of, 43, 105, 130
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Bell, and Lancaster schools, 345
Bentham, J.: and Poor Laws, 20, 20 n.;
influence, 341, 367-8; Chresto-
mathia, 368; 373; in defence of
usury, 384; suggested savings bank,
409
Bentinck, Lord, 67
Bentley, T., 143, 176
Berkshire Jethro Tull in, 236; poor
law administration in, 339-40
Berthollet, 295
Besant, Sir W., ,379
Bessemer, H., 169; on interchange-
able parts, 258; effect of inventions,
268; converter,' 273-5; Bessemer
steel in U.S., 275, 276, 278
Bevan, Mr., 239
Birkbeck, Professor, 368
Birth control, 331-2
Biscuits and tinplate, 146; industry,
311; manufactured by C.W.S., 430
Bismarck, 277, 374
Black, Professor J., 253
Blackburne, J., 156
Blackstone, 4
Blane, Sir G., 359
Blatchford, Lord, 79
Blenkinsop, J., 190
Board of Trade: and tariff, 25; marine
department, 172; statistics, 400
Boerhaave, H., 358
Booth, Sir C., 164
Bottomry, 172
Boulton, M. and Irish treaty, 35, 251;
hardware business with Fothergill,
142, 255; engine business with Watt,
142, 145; supplied Robert Fulton,
166, 251; contract with Wilkinson,
252, 254-5; monopoly ended, 256-7;
orders from tin mines, 262; engines
in Leeds, 295; supplied Oldknow,
302
Bowley, Professor A. L.: on train speeds,
199; on population, 332 n.; on wages
and prices, 396
Bowring, J., 367
Brabrook, Sir E., 413
Bradshaw, G., 196 n., 199
Bramah, J., 256, 257
Brassey, T.: building railways, 145–6,
189; Victoria Docks, 152
Bray, J. F., 373
Bridgewater, Duke of, 180, 182
Bright, J.: on corn laws, 24, 66-7, 354;
on game laws, 242; death of, 428
Brindley, J., 251-2, 303
British East Africa, 84
British North Borneo Co., 81
British South Africa Co., 81
Brooklands Agreement, 391-2
Brougham, Lord, 42, 369
Brunel, I. K., engineer to G.W.R., 167,
188, 192; to Great Eastern s.s., 169
Brunel, M. I., 88, 313
Buccleuch, Duke of, 5
Buckinghamshire: lace industry in, 289,
352; roundsmen in, 339
Buckley, Lord Justice, 433
Buller, C., 367
Burke, E., 223, 226
Burns, G., 168
CABLES, 213-14, 275
Cadburys, 311-12
Cadell, 12
Calderwood, S., 432
Calicoes prohibition of, 26, 290-1;
excise on, abolished, 62; imported,
132, 279; in Lancashire, 293;
printing of, 295, 308
Canada and corn laws, 50; fiscal
policy, 51-3; timber preference, 55;
wheat preference, 56; death duties
in, 71; tariff of, 76; responsible
government, 80; and penny post,
85; banking in, 117-19; Barings
agents for, 130; imports British
clothing, 140; railways in, 146, 197,
200-I ; trade balance of, 148-9;
population, 159; and Panama
Canal, 162; timber from, 163; and
shipping rates, 165; marine war
insurance, 173; motors in, 207;
post office in, 212; telephones in,
215; hydro-electric development,
217; exports to Great Britain,
224-5; settlement of West, 246;
manufacture of binders, 249; wheat
pool, 250, 420, 434, 438-9; emigra-
tion to, 328-9; Doukhobors, 352;
and South of England, 378; and
labour movement, 402, 403; farmers'
stores in, 426
Canadian Pacific Railway, 81, 118,
173; ocean service, 167
Canals, 173-86; railway competition,
198; and coal trade, 260; Irish, 347
Canning, G., 43, 45, 47; rhyming
dispatch, 51
Cape of Good Hope: trade with, 24 n. ;
and trade routes, 81, 161; and
penny post, 85; emigration to, 329
Carlyle, T. and corn laws, 68; and
North of England, 343; on Jonas
Hanway, 345; taught Buller, 367;
and Ruskin, 375
Carnegie, 372, 401-2
Cartwright, Rev. E., 295-6
Castlereagh, 43
Catherine of Russia, 142
Cattle: Welsh trade, 109; importation,
224; in agriculture, 237-9; Ameri-
can trade, 249; Scotch trade, 378
Cavendish, H., 253
Chadwick, E., 342, 364
Chamberlain,
J., 82-6; Imperial
Penny Post, 212; Birmingham Fire
Brigade, 365; and bankruptcy law,
385
Charles I, 92, 135, 361
Charles II, 92, 105
Chartism, 193, 344; and Anti-Corn
Law League, 66; peaceful nature of,
368; in Alton Locke, 379; prosecu-
tions, 382; and frame rent grievance,
387; and trade unionism, 388, 396,
403; and temperance, 407, 440
Cheshire cheese and salt, 156-7;
canals in, 180-1; salt, 181 n., 283;
drainage in, 240; cotton industry in,
289; co-operation in, 428
Child, F., 106
Child, Sir J., 129
Child labour, 344, 352-8, 387
China trade opened, 24, 63, 125;
exploitation of, 51, 125-6;
opium, 125, 139; tea trade, 133,
139; smuggled silks, 136; cotton
goods to, 144; railways in, 146;
and shipping conference, 165; china
from, 307
Churchill, W., 286
Clapham, J. H.: on enclosure map, 233;
on mining, 262; on condition of
people, 371; on woollen workers,
387
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