We welcome those engaged in historical research that entails use of the papers and correspondence of British and Irish economists over the period 1750 to 2000. This website has been designed to house a project to create and update an electronic version of a finding aid originally published in 1975 as Economists’ Papers 1750-1950; A Guide to Archive and other Manuscript Sources for the History of British and Irish Economic Thought. The objectives of the site are to:

• accommodate a downloadable version of the original guide
• facilitate revision of the entries on the basis of more up-to-date information
• extend the guide’s coverage to include economists who died after 1950
• enlist the support and gather information relevant to the project from archivists and other scholars
• enhance interest in the preservation of archive material that will be of value to future historians