Max What then is it this week twelve shilling six pence and three farthings?
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Sent: 26 April 2009 02:26
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Subject: one pound sterling
the value of one pound (1.00) sterling in 2005
was
(according to www.eh.net, quoted in V.Glendinning's life of L.Woolf)
in 1880 66.35
1890 73.31
1900 72.10
1910 67.99
1920 26.76
1930 42.12
1940 36.37
1950 22.95
1960 15.41
1970 10.36
[Presumably that website has much more than VG has a use for.]
[What astonishes me is that 1920 figure. Reading about the struggles of
self-
employed authors in the past requires a better head for numbers than mine.
Moving to France and later Germany was big post-1918, I know. That would
require
more sets of numbers to track, and maybe 'economic history services' lists
them.]
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