Till time's last sand
Subtitle: a history of the Bank of England, 1694-2013
By: David Kynaston
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 879
ISBN-13: 9781408868560; 9781408868577
Subjects: Monetary policy; Bank of England; Central Banks and banking; History
Description: 'Not an ordinary bank, but a great engine of state,' Adam Smith declared of the Bank of England as long ago as 1776. The Bank is now over 320 years old, and throughout almost all that time it has been central to British history. Yet to most people, despite its increasingly high profile, its history is largely unknown. Till Time's Last Sand by David Kynaston is the first authoritative and accessible single-volume history of the Bank of England, opening with the Bank's founding in 1694 in the midst of the English financial revolution and closing in 2013 with Mark Carney succeeding Mervyn King as Governor. This is a history that fully addresses the important debates over the years about the Bank's purpose and modes of operation and that covers such aspects as monetary and exchange-rate policies and relations with government, the City and other central banks. Yet this is also a narrative that does full justice to the leading episodes and characters of the Bank, while taking care to evoke a real sense of the place itself, with its often distinctively domestic side. Deploying an array of piquant and revealing material from the Bank's rich archives, Till Time's Last Sand is a multi-layered and insightful portrait of one of our most important national institutions, from one of our leading historians. --
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : It must now necessarily be a bank; title: Part one : 1694-1815. Services to the nation; title: A great engine of state; title: A steady and unremitting attention; title: An elderly lady in the city; title: Part two : 1815-1914. All the obloquy; title: The effects of tight lacing; title: Matters of conduct and behaviour; title: Money will not manage itself; title: Wonderfully youthful in spirit -considering; title: Part three : 1914-46. The Kipling man; title: Look busy anyway; title: The dogs bark; title: Part four : 1946-97. Not a study group; title: Honest money; title: Entering from stage right; title: Sunny offs; title: Serious misgivings; title: Welcome and long overdue; title: Postscript : You just don't know when.