Here are convenient links to the datasets that are publicly available from my published papers. If you use these data, please cite the paper rather than this website. If you are a scholar looking to collaborate, please reach out.
Labour Gazette data on the numbers unemployed, disaggregated by gender, in 100 industries, every month 1924-1936. This is the first complete digitization of these key data for interwar Britain, digitized from the original printed sources. [link]
Labour Gazette data on the numbers employed, disaggregated by gender, in 100 industries, every July 1924-1936, digitized from the original printed sources. [link]
Census of England and Wales (1931) Industry Tables, giving the number in the labor force of about 50 industries in every region of England and Wales in 1931, digitized from the original printed sources. [link]
Cross-walk for Census of England and Wales (1931) industries to Labour Gazette (1924-1936) industries, created by hand. [link]
Laborers, days worked, and wages in early modern London at St. Paul’s Cathedral. These data are anonymized, individual-level data on the days worked each reporting period for each individual in the rebuilding of St. Paul’s Cathedral, 1672-1748. [link]
Data from Dobson's Masters and Journeymen: A Pre-History of Industrial Relations, 1717-1800 (1980) on the number and nature of industrial and trade disputes recorded in newspaper and court sources, 1717-1800. [link]
Employment Gazette data on the number employed for 12 sectors by region of the UK, annually 1971-1977 then quarterly 1978-1989, digitized from the printed Historical Supplements (1987 & 1989). [link]
The code for the past predictive modeling method from "Predictive Modeling the Past" is available on Github. [link]