Seven Centuries of Unreal Wages The Unreliable Data, Sources and Methods that have been used for Measuring Standards of Living in the Past

John Hatcher
 is Emeritus Professor of Economic and Social History and Fellow of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, UK. He is renowned for his wide ranging work on the economic, social and demographic history of England from the Middle Ages to the eighteenth century. He has also published a book about the experiences of the ordinary individuals who lived and died in the Black Death, which combines history with fiction.

Judy Stephenson
 is a postdoctoral fellow in Economic History at Wadham College, University of Oxford, UK. She researches and publishes work on early modern employment, work and labour markets. She published her first book 
Contracts and Pay: Work in London Construction 1660–1785 
with Palgrave Macmillan in 2018.