T. S. Willan

Thomas Stuart Willan, FBA was a British economic historian. From 1961 to 1973 he was the Professor of Economic History at the University of Manchester, where he had earlier been an assistant lecturer, lecturer, senior lecturer and reader. He was elected a fellow of the British Academy in 1991 and was the subject of a festschrift: W. H. Chaloner and B. M. Ratcliffe, Trade and Transport: Essays in Economic History in Honour of T. S. Willan.

Publications

River Navigation in England, 1600–1750 The English Coasting Trade, 1600–1750 The Muscovy Merchants of 1555 The Early History of the Russia Company, 1553–1603 Studies in Elizabethan Foreign Trade A Tudor Book of Rates The Early History of the Don Navigation An Eighteenth-Century Shopkeeper: Abraham Dent of Kirkby Stephen The Inland Trade: Studies in English Internal Trade in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Elizabethan Manchester, Publications of the Chetham Society, 3rd Series, vol. 27.