Links
This - very much under development - page is a consolidated list of the resources contained in the handbooks for Cdb Could do Better? and TL Thatcherism’s Legacy. If you would like to propose new links please email me with the URL and I’ll consider their inclusion.
Data sources (see also Portals)
- British Election Studies
- British Social Attiudes (you wll need to register to use)
- Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS, University of Essex)
- Economics Network
- EH.Net (a portal for economic history resources, mainly but not exclusively North American)
- Eurostat
- Historicalstatistics.org (a portal for historical statistics, OECD countries)
- Groningen Growth & Development Centre (GGDC, continuing the work begun by Maddison)
- MORI time series
- Office for National Statistics statbase (ONS statbase)
- PENN World Tables (now ver 6.2)
- TimeWeb (operated by BizEd)
- UK Election results (local and national)
Economic
- Bank of England
- IMF
- National Institute of Economic and Social Research
- OECD
- Royal Economic Society
- The Treasury
- World Bank
Glossaries
Miscellaneous
- History & Policy (A network of historians working for better public policy through greater accurate knowledge of history) Their news section is worth monitoring
Personal web sites/blogs
- Sir Samual Brittan (Financial Times)
- Professor Stephen Broadberry
- Professor Brad DeLong
Politics
- 10 Downing Street
- Electoral Commission election results
- General election manifestos
- House of Commons
- House of Lords
- MORI
- Pensions Commission
- politics.co.uk
- Political Studies Resources (extensive collection maintained by Richard Kimber, University of Keele)
- UK politics (no longer active, but much useful material)
Polling organisations
Portals
- BBC
- EH.Net
- Economic growth (Jonathan Temple)
- WebEc
Publications
- The Economist
- The Economist: Historical Archive, 1843-2003
- House of Commons papers
- New Statesman
- Prospect
- The Spectator
Thatcher
Think-tanks & University Research Institutes
- Adam Smith Institute
- AEI
- Bow Group
- The Brookings Institution
- Catalyst
- Cato Institute
- Centre for Economic Performance
- Centre for European Reform
- CentreForum (liberal think-tank seeking to develop evidence based, long term policy solutions to the problems facing Britain)
- Centre for Market and Public Organisation
- Centre for Policy Studies
- Centre for Social Justice (Conservative think-tank established by Ian Smith)
- Chatham House (Royal Institute of International Affairs)
- Civitas
- Commonwealth Policy Studies Institute
- Compass
- Constitution Unit(UCL)
- Demos
- Fabian Society
- Foreign Policy Centre
- Fraser Institute
- Globalisation Institute
- Heritage Foundation
- Institute of Economic Affairs
- Institute for Fiscal Studies
- IPPR
- Lombard Street Research
- New Economic Foundation
- New Local Government Network
- New Policy Institute
- New Politics Network(Independent, focused on democratic renewal)
- Open Europe
- Pensions Institute (Cass Business School)
- Policy Exchange (supposedly influential on Cameronite Conservatives)
- Politeia
- Policy Network (’New ideas for progressive politics’)
- Reform
- Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies (The world’s oldest think tank for defence and security issues)
- Social Market Foundation
- Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (LSE)
- World Economic Forum
- Young Foundation