Statesman's Year Book. (annual source of varied current information on population, exchange rates and other country data)

Eatwell, John et al., The New Palgrave: A Dictionary of Economics, 3 vols. (London and New York, 1987). (Often forbidding, and with various hidden biases, but full of gems)

Palgrave, R.H.I., Palgrave's Dictionary of Political Economy, New edn., ed. Henry Higgs, 3 vols. (London, 1925). (last edition of this classic)

Seligman, E. R. A. and Johnson, A. S. (eds.), Encylopaedia of the Social Sciences (New York, 1931). (excellent source for state of the art in 1920s).

Sills, David L. and Merton, Robert K., International Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences (New York, 1968). (Still very solid, with many superb articles and some period pieces)

Great Britain, Statistical Abstract for the United Kingdom, superseded by Annual Abstract of Statistics (London, annual).

Mitchell, Brian Redman, International Historical Statistics: Africa and Asia (London, 1982). (starting point for African and Asian research)

Mitchell, Brian Redman, International Historical Statistics: The Americas and Australasia (London, 1983). (starting point. But North America and Australia have superb statistical sources of their own. References can be found there)

Mitchell, Brian Redman, British Historical Statistics (Cambridge, 1988). (starting point for British research)

Mitchell, Brian Redman, European Historical Statistics, 1750-1988, 3rd edn. (London, 1991). (starting point for European research)

Carter, Susan B. Historical Statistics of the United States: Earliest Times to the Present (Cambridge 2006) [also available online, see OXLIP]

Jeremy, David (ed.), Dictionary of Business Biography: A Biographical Dictionary of Business Leaders Active in Britain in the Period 1860-1980 (1984-86), 5 vols.

Who's Who (London, annual, 1845 onwards). (omits many significant people, but good for nobility, politicians, etc.)

Who Was Who: A Companion to Who's Who, 8 vols.; vol. 1: 1897-1915 etc. (retrospective compendium. More accessible than WW, but has surprising gaps) [available electronically via OXLIP]

Smith, George and Stephen, Leslie (eds.), Dictionary of National Biography, 48 vols. + supplements (London, 1882 onwards). [available electronically via OXLIP]

Cockton, Peter, Subject Catalogue of the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 1801-1900, 5 vols. (Cambridge, 1988). (exhaustive)

Cockton, Peter, House of Commons Parliamentary Papers 1801-1900: Guide to the Chadwyck-Healey Microfiche Edition (Cambridge, 1991).

Ford, Percy, A Guide to Parliamentary Papers: What they Are: How to Find them: How to Use Them, 3rd edn (Shannon, 1972). (87 pp. Indispensable introduction and guide)

Ford, Percy, Hansard's Catalogue and Breviate of Parliametary Papers 1696-1834 (Shannon, 1972).

Ford, P. and G., Select List of British Parliamentary Papers, 1833-1899 (Shannon, 1969). (not full comprehensive, but very usable)

Ford, P. and G., A Breviate of Parliamentary Papers 1900-1916 (Shannon, 1969). (abstracts of main reports)

Ford, P. and G., A Breviate of Parliamentary Papers 1917-1939 (Shannon, 1969). (abstract of main reports)

Ford, P. and G., A Breviate of Parliamentary Papers 1940-1954 (Shannon, 1969). (abstract of main reports)

Great Britain, House of Commons, Numerical List and Index to the Sessional Printed Papers(London, 1892-1926).

Great Britain, General Index to the Bills, Reports and Papers Printed by Order of the House of Commons....Presented by Command 1900 to 1948-49 (London, 1960). (First source for years 1900-1949)

Rodgers, Frank, Serial Publications in the British Parliamentary Papers 1900-1968: A Bibliography (London, 1971).

[Parliamentary catalogues are now available online -- including the full-text of 19th Century Parliamentary papers -- see OXLIP]

Historical Manuscripts Commission, Sources of Business History in Reports of the National Register of Archives (London, 1964-72). (a peek into the NRA. A shortlist of all records also available in Bodley. Consult before going to London) URL - http://www.hmc.gov.uk/ for Historical Manuscript Commission website.

Bodleian Library Catalogue pre-1920 Complete

British Library Online Catalog (OPAC)

British National Bibliography Complete 1950-

Dissertation Abstracts Ondisc Complete 1861-

EconLit (All economics articles, including economic history!!) 1969-

Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) Complete

Global Books in Print

Historical Abstracts since 1972

Historical Statistics of the United States (from OXLIP)

Index to Theses (ASLIB) 1970-1990

JSTOR - Online backruns of main historical and social science journals. (from OXLIP)

MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association) Complete 1981-

PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) 1972-

Palmer's Index to The Times, 1790-1850

Philosopher's Index 1940-

Sociofile (including some social history) 1974-

Ulrich's Plus (Current affairs) Complete

Whitaker's Bookbank (Books in Print) Complete

OCLC - Comprehensive bibliographical database, including articles, book reviews, and almost 30 million book titles. Password from your college librarian. [through OXLIP]

RLIN bibliographical database of American Research Universities network.

WINSPIRS - Econlit, Medline, Psylit, Geobase, Sociolfile article and book databases [through Windows, on the University network, through OXLIP, or through ERL service on the WWW on the University network]

HTTP://WWW.HISTORY.OX.AC.UK/ECOHIST/ - Our own website. Consult for up-to-date information, course literature, seminar programmes etc.

HTTP://IHR.SAS.AC.UK/ - comprehensive source of UK historiographical links.

ONLINE TEXTS in the HISTORY OF ECONOMIC THOUGHT. (and pointers to other text collections)

American Historical Review. (American Historical Association. Few articles, many book reviews)

Australian Economic History Review.

Business History. (British)

Business History Review. (American)

Comparative Studies in Society and History. (idiosyncratic, with bias to historical sociology)

Economic History Review. (flagship British journal)

English Historical Review. (Oxford history flagship. Many reviews, published with lag of up to four years)

European Review of Economic History. (new journal, modelled on Journal of Economic History)

Explorations in Economic History. (American: Quantitative and theoretical)

Historical Journal. (Cambridge history flagship. Political history bias, few reviews)

History. (British. Thin articles, many prompt reviews)

History of Political Economy.

History Workshop Journal. (British. Left-leaning social history)

International Review of Social History. (Dutch, but has now moved to Cambridge. Many short abstracts of books)

Irish Economic and Social History Review.

Isis. (American: history of science)

Journal of American History. (middle-western rival to American Historical Review)

Journal of Economic History. (flagship American journal)

Journal of European Economic History. (published in Italy in English)

Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.

Journal of Peasant Studies. (Transatlantic. Often historical)

Journal of Social History. (American)

Journal of the History of Ideas. (American. Intellectual history and history of science. Austere)

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. (up to 1930s contains a great deal of empirical material)

Past and Present. (British social history flagship)

Scandinavian Economic History Review.

Social History. (British)

Social History of Medicine.(British)

Technology and Culture. (American: broad social history approach)