Scottish Economic History Database

Publications
Prices, food and wages in Scotland, 1550-1780

L Cullen, TC Smout and AJS Gibson,'Wages and comparative development in Ireland and Scotland, 1565-1780', in R. Mitchison and P. Roebuck (eds.), Economy and Society in Scotland and Ireland, 1500-1939 (Edinburgh, 1988), pp105-16.

AJS Gibson and TC Smout, 'Food and hierarchy in Scotland, 1550-1650', in L. Leneman (ed.), Perspectives in Scottish Social History: Essays in Honour of Rosalind Mitchison (Aberdeen, 1988), pp33-52.

AJS Gibson and TC Smout, 'Scottish food and Scottish history, 1500-1800', in I Whyte and RA Houston (eds.), Scottish Society 1500-1800 (Cambridge, 1989), pp59-84.

AJS Gibson, 'Proletarianisation? The transition to full-time labour on a Scottish Estate, 1723-1787', Continuity and Change, Vol. 5(3), 1990, pp357-389.

AJS Gibson and TC Smout, Prices, food and wages in Scotland, 1550-1780 (Cambridge University Press, 1994)

AJS Gibson and TC Smout, 'Regional prices and market regions; the evolution of the early-modern Scottish grain market', Economic History Review, Vol. 48(2), 1995.

AJS Gibson and TC Smout, 'The debasement of the Scottish coinage', 'Day-labourers' wage-rates in Edinburgh and Aberdeen', 'Burgh statute prices', and 'Fife fiars prices for bear and oatmeal', in P. McNeill (ed), The New Historical Atlas of Scotland (forthcoming, Edinburgh, 1995/6)