I came across references to these two books recently on the internet. I haven't seen them, but they
look like they might solve the eternal argument about bushels (no - I doubt it really!)
Does anyone have any opinions on these books; are they worth tracking down?
The Weights and Measures of England
by R D Connor
H M S O, London, 1987 (422 pages)
ISBN 0 460 86137 9
A scholarly and detailed account of the history of the development of the
British (Imperial) system of weights and measures from the earliest times.
British Weights and Measures
by R E Zupko
A history from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century
The University of Wisconsin Press, 1977 [248 pages]
ISBN 0 299 07340 8
The actual history occupies only 100 pages. There is then an extensive list
of the various units used in commerce, tables of many pre-Imperial units, a
long list of pre-metric measures used in Europe together with their British
and metric equivalents, and nearly 40 pages giving other sources.
All the best
Roger
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