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“... The introduction to these volumes states that the chapters ‘make up an economic history of England and Wales since 1700’, thereby displaying a curtailed concept of Britain. Most of the chapters concentrate on England, though almost all of the tables, of which there are many, are based on figures for Great Britain as a whole or, in Volume II, for the United Kingdom ...”

“... imagine what is required to render such changes historically comprehensible, is to see at once why Floud and McCloskey claim that ‘economic history is an exciting subject.’ Or is it? Undeniably, in the years from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s, economic history was exciting, as an ever-expanding army of scholars, stirred by the theories of development ...”

“... to have been a delusion, however. In An Economic History of the English Garden (Penguin, £12.99), Roderick Floud points out that we rank near the bottom of European surveys in terms of actual time spent gardening, though we like to spend money on it: £11.4 billion a year, excluding hired labour. According to one study, people from low-income households ...”

“... to specifications agreed with the university and the funders. The new acting dean of SAS, Roderick Floud, pointed out in August 2009 that ‘no solution has yet been found to the circa £500k deficit incurred by the Warburg Institute library, which cannot be absorbed within the Hefce special funding to the School.’ This deficit, which appeared ...”

“... he always adroitly ducked administrative jobs. Evans tells a story of Hobsbawm backing the young Roderick Floud for a professorial chair mostly, Floud later realised, so he wouldn’t have to be head of department himself. It will be hard for today’s young academics, groaning under research assessments and ...”