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The Industrial and Commercial History of England – Lectures delivered to the University of Oxford by the late James E. Thorold Rogers is an unchanged, copy of the original edition of 1898. Development of industrial skill in England; progress of English population; development of transit; economic doctrine of waste; economic rent; movements of labour.

James Edwin Thorold Rogers (23 March 1823 – 14 October 1890), known as Thorold Rogers, was an English economist, historian and Liberal politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1880 to 1886. He deployed historical and statistical methods to analyse some of the key economic and social questions in Victorian England. As an advocate of free trade and social justice he distinguished himself from some others within the English Historical School.