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Introduction
*The Queen's; College, University of Oxford; e-mail: nicholas.dimsdale@economics.ox.ac.uk
University of Virginia
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This Special Issue of Oxford Economic Papers contains a collection of papers, which have been submitted in response to a general invitation from the Guest Editors. It is entitled New Perspectives in Economic History, since it was intended to encourage submissions either in new areas of the subject or those which showed new insights into more familiar topics. The resulting collection provides an indication of the type of work which is being done in the field. The published papers are distributed over an extensive historical period, which ranges from the early 18th century to the mid 20th century. Of the seven papers in the issue, three relate to the period before 1820, three to the middle period up to 1938 and one relates to the postwar years. Some papers use historical data sets to test economic models, others take an economic model and use it to illuminate some aspect