Table 1 INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT

a) Index of UK industrial production

Adapted from : RV Jackson, 'Rates of industrial growth during the industrial revolution', Economic History Review, 45, 1992, 19

b) Pig iron output (in thousands of tons)

Adapted from : P. Riden, 'The output of the British iron industry before 1870', Economic History Review 30, 1977

Table 2 EXPORT STATISTICS

a) Shares of major exports in total merchandise exports (%)

b) Proportions of gross output sold abroad (%)

Adapted from : NFR Crafts, British Economic Growth during the industrial revolution (Oxford, 1985) p. 143

Table 3 EMPLOYMENT IN ENGLISH AND WELSH AGRICULTURE 1700-1851 (thousands)

Adapted from : R.A.C. Allen, 'Agriculture during the industrial revolution' in R. Floud and D.N. McCloskey eds., The Economic History of Britain since 1700 vol. 1 (1994)

Table 4 POPULATION AND URBANISATION

a) Population estimates for England millions:

Source: E.A. Wrigley and R.S. Schofield, The Population History of England Table 7.8, pp. 208-9

b) Percentage of total population in towns of 10,000 or more: European continent compared with England

Adapted from: E.A. Wrigley, 'Urban growth and agricultural change: England and the continent in the early modern period' Journal of Interdisciplinary History 15, pp. 683-728, Table 6.