Historical datasets and resources
Nuno Palma
African economic history network
AFLIT (African Long-term Inequality Trends)
Allen-Unger ‘Global commodity prices database’
Arquivo Histórico Ultramarino, and other Portuguese archives
Bank of England daily account books, 1851-1983
Clio-infra: Reconstructing global inequality
Database on ships transiting through the Sound, and see also here.
David Rumsey's website, and in particular the Historic Map collection. See also this website.
European state finance database
HISCO, and searchable occupational titles
Patrick O'Brien's DPhil dissertation (Oxford, 1967). See also here.
Pauper lives in Georgian London and Manchester
Portuguese military registries
Portuguese historical statistics
Projeto GERMIL: Genealogia em registos militares
Projeto Resgate, Biblioteca Luso Brasileira
Prices, wages and rents in Portugal, 1300-1910
The Cambridge Group for the History of Population and Social Structure
The Maddison project: estimates of economic growth in the world economy between AD 1 and 2010.
Source Collection on Urban annuities, 14th–18th centuries
Torre do Tombo (see also here).
Various data by Robert C. Allen
Re-counting the past (Robert C. Allen)
Rodney Edvinsson's historical statistics portal
Rosés-Wolf database on regional GDPs, 1900-2010
For more datasets, see the Groningen growth and development centre, the Global price and income history group, and the eh.net database.
Figure from Palma and Reis (2021)
Figure from Costa, Henriques and Palma (2022)