| Year | Price | Reference |
| 1208 | A year’s pay for a craftsman blacksmith, 8s 6d. For a carpenter, 6s 8d. For a maid, only 2s 6d alas. NH: The gender gap hasn’t changed much! By comparison, a brand new cart with iron-rimmed wheels cost 5s 7d. Consider the relationship today between the cost of a new car and a year’s wages of the average person. Not sure what a glass of beer cost. | The pound, David Sinclair |
| 1239-1307 | In Edward I’s reign a labourer earned a penny a day, a skilled craftsman, four times as much | The Hidden springs of Englishness, Robert Winder |
| 1350’s | Riots happened when the price of beer, following the Black Death, rose to 8d a gallon | |
| 1480 | leather shoes, between 5d and 15d the pair | |
| 1756 | At the time of the Seven Years War, a Royal Naval rating could earn 12p a day, at a time when a farm labourer might earn 3-4p/day | The Wooden World, N.A.M Rodger |
| 1801 | A Peak District lead miner, with luck, might earn 5p a day, and that considered poor and inadequate wages deserving of charity | A tour thro’ the whole island of Great Britain, volume 8, Daniel Defoe |
| 1803 | Cost of the Lewis and Clark expedition: $38000+$11000 extra. 1803-1806 | Lewis and Clark’s journal |
| 1825 | A labourer digging the Ohio canal, $15/month | Ray Allen Billington, Westward Expansion – a history of the American frontier |
| 1829 | Omnibus Paddington to Bank, 6p | Cathedrals of Steam, Christian Woolmar |
| 1830’s | Shooting powder, $2 per pint in Saint Louis | Life in the far West, G.F Ruxton |
| 1838 | train London Bridge to Greenwich, 8p, considered “steep” | Cathedrals of Steam, Christian Woolmar |
| 1849 | First class train travel one way Euston to Birmingham £1.50 (about £125 in 2020). Second class, £1. | Cathedrals of Steam, Christian Woolmar |
| 1851 | Coal in London halves in cost from 30s/ton to 17s/ton | Cathedrals of Steam, Christian Woolmar |
| 1866 | Spencer breech loading rifle, $30, about two months pay for a private soldier | The Fetterman Massacre, Dee Brown |
| 1860’s | An officer earning $130/month paid $1300 for a return trip from the frontier to “the states” | The Fetterman Massacre, Dee Brown |
| 1872 | The wages on offer to the miners who dug (Blea Moor) tunnel in 1872 were 5s (equivalent to £22.49 in 2019) to 5s 6d (equivalent to £24.37 in 2019)[2] per day.[3] – | Wikipedia |
| 1873 | Full board in the Midland Grand Hotel at St Pancras, 14 shillings (£1.40) | Cathedrals of Steam, Christian Woolmar |
| 1880’s | A low-ranking maid in London in the 1880’s might earn £12-14 per annum | Kipling |
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