Interest Rate since 1694 from Bank of England.
Data comes from the Bank of England Website www.bankofengland.co.uk. Rate is either minimum lending rate, minimum band 1 dealing rate, or repo rate depending on era. Converted by assuming where month or day not given that it was the first of the month (see data.original.csv)
Original data in xls format www.bankofengland.co.uk/statistics/Documents/rates/baserate.xls
Public Domain Dedication and License.