Download or read book Tales of the Bank of England written by Anonymous and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-05-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tales of the Bank of England with Anecdotes of London Bankers - An interesting and chatty collection of curious stories. drawn from the history of the Bank of England and other banking houses. We have the storming of the Bank in the Lord George Gordon Riots; the runs on the Bank. especially in 1797, 1832, and 1849; the wonderful career of Price, the king of counterfeiters; the frauds of the notorious Fauntleroy; and many interesting tales of the Rothschilds, Goldsmids, Thelussons, and other great banking houses. -The Bookseller [1882]
Download or read book Till Time s Last Sand written by David Kynaston and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-07 with total page 897 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ____________________ The authorised history of the Bank of England by the bestselling David Kynaston, 'the most entertaining historian alive' (Spectator). 'Kynaston's aim is to provide a history of the Bank for the general reader and in this he triumphantly succeeds, providing a worthy complement to the notable series of books on different periods of the Bank's history ... wonderfully readable' Financial Times '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. ____________________ 'The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street has been waiting for a biographer who could do justice to the richness of her story ... This is the work of a scholar with a gift for illuminating every square inch of each enormous canvas he chooses to paint ... Kynaston brings characters large and small to life' Literary Review 'full of human detail ... an exemplary narrative history, with the archives plundered judiciously and plenty of focus on people and their quirks ... rendered on an entertainingly human scale' The Times 'A triumph ... this portrait of the Bank of England really is fascinating, at times even gripping' Sunday Telegraph
Download or read book Daniel Defoe and the Bank of England written by Valerie Hamilton and published by John Hunt Publishing. This book was released on 2016-01-29 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This little book tells the truthful story of how the Bank of England actually came into being. It is a story of pirates, treasure, random good fortune and sheer determination. This is an institution founded on risk, daring and imagination. The tale is entangled with that of the early novel, in particular the fortunes of one Moll Flanders, an entrepreneur of sexual relations in the growing London market for capital in the early eighteenth century. These accounts are woven together with the life-stories of Daniel Defoe and William Paterson, founders of two of the key institutions of our modern age, the novel and the corporation. This reveals connections which are nowadays forgotten, and which the fractured specialisms of ‘Literature’, ‘History’ and ‘Business’ can rarely see. These tales are set against the backdrop of the long eighteenth century - fervent years of inventiveness, high risk gambling, and political revolution. The authors show that the dark arts of deceit, and the credibility of fictions, are requirements for any creative enterprise, and that all organizations are fictions.
Download or read book The Thieves of Threadneedle Street written by Nicholas Booth and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest untold crime saga of the Victorian Era: the extraordinary true story of four American forgers who tried to steal five million dollars from the Bank of England. In the summer of 1873, four American forgers went on trial at the Old Bailey for the greatest fraud the world had ever seen: the attempted theft of five million dollars from the Bank of England. In The Thieves of Threadneedle Street, Nicholas Booth tells the extraordinary true story of the forgers' earliest escapades, culminating in the heist at the world’s leading financial institution. At the heart of the story is the charming criminal genius Austin Bidwell who, on the brink of escaping with his fortune, saw his luck finally run out. There were double crosses and miraculous escapes. There were chases across rural Ireland, through Scottish cities, across the Atlantic on ships heading toward Manhattan and — most exotic of all — Cuba, where the most elusive thief would eventually be captured, only to escape again. Hot on their trail was William Pinkerton, "the greatest detective in America," scion of the famous detective agency. With its cast of improbable villains, curious coincidences, and extraordinary adventures, this is an astounding international caper with twists and turns that often defy belief. With access to previously unopened archives, Nicholas Booth has unearthed the greatest untold crime saga of the Victorian Era.
Download or read book Tales of the Bank of England written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales of the Bank of England With Anecdotes of London Bankers 1882 written by James Hogg and published by . This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
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Download or read book Tales of the Bank of England written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-11 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Tales of the Bank of England: With Anecdotes of London Bankers; Illustrated by Portraits and Engravings Such a name as Child, the banker, which claims from the reign of Elizabeth, will rather serve our turn; but we may go further and beyond three centuries, and take the Gres hams, and their representatives, the Martins. In the City the Grasshopper glitters aloft, and is reverentially regarded; but how little is there at first thought, and yet how much by thinking of it, that remains to us of a time so clear in tradi tion and so remote in time! The East India Company, like a jewel dissolved in a royal cup, has lost its existence in the birth of an immense empire, having for its subjects one-fourth of the human race; the Muscovy Company is a name; the Levant Company not even that; the Virginia Company loses its history in that of another empire of the English race. True, there are buildings and institutions, as there are others far older, which remained in Elizabeth's time, and remain now. The Royal Exchange and Gresham College, Gresham founded for us. Sir Thomas Gresham undoubtedly had this ensign of his, the Grasshopper, placed on the banking - house in Lombard Street, where it still holds place. How far back beyond him the title is to be traced is not known. Undoubtedly the banking history goes back beyond Sir Thomas Gresham, although it may not attach to 68, Lombard Street, but to some other house there or elsewhere. Sir Richard Gresham, the father, held that office of the King's Exchanger for Henry VIII., to which Sir Thomas succeeded. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Making a Modern Central Bank written by Harold James and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 569 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative guide to the transformation of the Bank of England into a modern inflation-targeting independent central bank examines a revolution in monetary and economic policy and the modernization of British institutions in the late twentieth century.
Download or read book Tales of the Bank of England written by Hardpress and published by Hardpress Publishing. This book was released on 2013-01 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Download or read book Tales of the Bank of England written by and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Story of the Bank of England A History of English Banking and a Sketch of the Money Market written by Henry Warren and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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