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Calculators etc. Age Calculator The Soundex code was developed to help negate the effects of all the spelling variations that can occur for similar sounding names (Meyer, Meier, Mire, and Smith, Smithe, Smythe, etc.). This way, indexers can index records based on a Soundex code (how a surname sounds) and *not* by how it is spelled. Clipart Kith 'n' Kin Clipart
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| Money MattersEH.Net calculator for comparing the purchasing power of money in Great Britain from 1264 to any other year up to the 21st century. It is one of a number of calculators for comparing wages, prices and relative values at the website How Much is that? The Office for National Statistics developed this web-based tool that allows users to calculate an inflation rate based on their personal expenditure patterns, rather than the averages used in published statistics. Dollar-Pound Exchange Rate From 1791 An exchange rate is the price of one currency in terms of another currency. The exchange rate presented here is the price of the British pound in U.S. dollars, that is, the number of U.S. dollars per British pound. This is the traditional way in which the relative price of the two currencies is compared. Information about how inflation is calculated and links to tables of data from the Office for National Statistics. Consumer Price Inflation Since 1750 A composite price index covering the period since 1750. Inflation: the Value of the Pound 1750-1998. House of Commons Library Research Paper 99/20. A list of prices of everyday items Britain during the Second World War. The same site has information on typical wages. Compiled by Richard Patterson. Wages, the Cost of Living, Contemporary Equivalents to Victorian Money This is part of the economics section of the Victorian Web a huge website about literature, history and culture in the age of Victoria maintained by Professor George P. Landow and colleagues of his at Brown University in the United States. The Cost of Living in Jane Austen's England A brief article describing how a family would manage on £250 a year, or, much more comforably, on £1,000 a year. In Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility Mrs John Dashwood argued that her in-laws family would not know how to spend half their money if they had £500 a year. Currency, Coinage and the Cost of Living This article describes the coinage, wages and cost of living in London from the late 17th century to the beginning of the 19th Century. Costs and Wages in Great Britain Some examples of wages for particular occupations and a small selection of prices taken from the book The English: A Social History, 1066-1945 by Christopher Hibbert, London: Grafton Books, 1987. Relative Value of Sums of Money A set of tables compiled by Alan M. Stanier from various sources giving wage rates for various occupations in Britain at different times. Instances of wife Selling occurred in Britain until late in the 19th century. It was regarded, particularly by the poorer sections of society, as an alternative to divorce. This account of various cases includes prices. The most famous account of wife selling is in Thomas Hardy's novel the Mayor of Casterbridge. It was based on real cases. |
