Numeracy in everyday life: evidence from eighteenth-century Scotland (opens in new tab)

In this post, James Fox (University of Glasgow) presents research on everyday numeracy in eighteenth-century Scotland, supported by a Carnevali Small Research Grant from the Economic History Society. — How important were basic number skills in the lives of our ancestors? What role did numeracy play in processes of social and economic change? These questions […] The post appeared first on .