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Dr William Turkington (HM Treasury).
Monday 16 March 2026, 17:00-18:30
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Financial History Seminar
Mortgages, maturity mismatching and the transformation of British banking: 1971-92
Financial History Seminar
The road to 1997: Bank of England operational independence in historical perspective
Financial History Seminar
Bonds without borders: the Eurobond market
Financial History Seminar
'Muddling through or tunnelling through?β UK monetary and fiscal exceptionalism and the Great Inflation
βTell them about the catsβ: How communication and culture drives value in adopting crypto memecoins
β οΈ Limited space - RSVP with hmh46@cam.ac.uk by May 20
Financial History Seminar
Money: a Treasury-centric view
Financial History Seminar
What does it mean to Democratize Finance?
Financial History Seminar
The Federal Reserve's 'rate war' and its aftermath: the political consequences of financial instability, 1966-72.
Financial History Seminar
A new history of the interwar Bank of England
Financial History Seminar
How a ledger became a central bank: a monetary history of the Bank of Amsterdam.
Financial History Seminar
How insurers learned to stop worrying and love regulation: a City insurance manβs view of how the insurance market discovered the world of Basel and became a key risk partner for banks.
Financial History Seminar
The long road to the Bank of Ghana, 1825-1966.
Financial History Seminar
Inside Thatcher's monetarism experiment - the promise, the failure, the legacy
Financial History Seminar
How Big Bang ruined the City. Did 1980s reforms cause the 2008 financial crisis and all that followed?
Financial History Seminar
The Meade Committee on UK Tax Reform 1975-8
Financial History Seminar
Whatβs in a Bubble? The South Sea Bubble and the conceptual history of financial crisis.
Financial History Seminar
An exchange rate history of the United Kingdom, 1945β1992
Financial History Seminar
The Last Liberal Republican: An Insider's Perspective on Nixon's Surprising Social Policy
Financial History Seminar
Popular attitudes to taxation in Britain c. 1945-1992: reassessing the evidence
Financial History Seminar
Protectionism, deindustrialisation and European integration: the crisis of British Keynesianism revisited, 1973-1993
Financial History Seminar
The Global Financial Crisis and its aftermath: a perspective from fiction and some general reflections on inter-disciplinary research
Financial History Seminar
Who finances the financiers? Twenty years of HM Treasury resource accounts
Financial History Seminar
The politics of money: Presidential power and the Federal Reserve System
Financial History Seminar
Opium, Tea and Cotton: The Rise and Fall of the Sassoon Dynasty in South East Asia
Financial History Seminar
The landed gentry in British politics after World War II: from taxed decadence to subsidized cultural heritage
Financial History Seminar
HM Treasury and its management of the Financial Crisis, 2007-2009
Financial History Seminar
Poland, the international monetary system and the Bank of England, 1921β1939
Financial History Seminar
Menus without prices? Manifestos, party competition, and public finance in Britain, c. 1955-1983
Financial History Seminar
The Great Demographic Reversal: ageing societies, waning inequality, and an inflation
Financial History Seminar
Sharing the blame for the Great Depression: The Federal Advisory Council, 1918-36.
Financial History Seminar
Walter Bagehot: the life and times of the greatest Victorian
Financial History Seminar
Three hundred years of Prime Ministers, 1721-2021: how has the office survived and adapted?
Financial History Seminar
City financiers as patrons in the later seventeenth century
Financial History Seminar
The anatomy of Britainβs inter-war super-rich: reconstructing the 1928 'millionaire' population
Financial History Seminar
Fiscal reform in Britain and Germany since 1945
Financial History Seminar
City financiers as patrons in the later seventeenth century
Financial History Seminar
Economic uncertainty over the long run: a natural language processing approach.
Financial History Seminar
Bankers with different 'golden dreams': bank business models and the British money supply in the early Industrial Revolution.
Financial History Seminar
Taxes and growth: new narrative evidence from interwar Britain
Financial History Seminar
The Scottish Ministers' Widows' Fund: the worldβs first soundly-funded pension plan
Financial History Seminar
What would Keynes make of President Trump's economic policies?
Financial History Seminar
Efficient derivatives pricing before Black, Scholes and Merton: evidence from the interwar London Metals Exchange
Financial History Seminar
The Invention of Monetary Policy. Divergent Paths of Monetarist Experimentation in Switzerland and the UK
Financial History Seminar
Bears, Bulls and Boers: Market Making and Southern African Mining Finance, 1894-1899
Financial History Seminar
Not Maggie's fault? The Thatcher government and the reemergence of global finance
Financial History Seminar
Britain, Jamaica and the modern global financial order, 1800-50
Financial History Seminar
Bullion or specie? The role of Spanish American silver coins in Europe and Asia throughout the 18th century
Financial History Seminar
Money: the unauthorised biography
Financial History Seminar
Why did Britain have broad money supply targets?
β οΈ http://www.hist.cam.ac.uk/directory/djn33@cam.ac.uk
Financial History Seminar
The London merchant banks and the road to the 1931 crisis
Financial History Seminar
UK monetary and credit policy around the Radcliffe Report
Financial History Seminar
Related investing: corporate ownership and the dynamics of capital mobilization during industrialization
Financial History Seminar
The βBimetallic Controversyβ and the golden age of monetary orthodoxy, 1880-1900
Financial History Seminar
The end of the Swiss economic model
Financial History Seminar
Respectable banking: the search for stability in Londonβs money and credit markets since the great currency crisis of 1695
Financial History Seminar
Individual investors in the late nineteenth century: what did they invest in, and why?
Financial History Seminar
Keynes, Trouton and the Hector Whaling Company
Financial History Seminar
Doctrinal determinants of Federal Reserve policy, 1914-1934
Financial History Seminar
The Coalition Effect, 2010-2015
Financial History Seminar
Mr Osborneβs Economic Experiment
Financial History Seminar
British Financial Crises in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Financial History Seminar
Rating the United Kingdom: The British governmentβs first sovereign credit ratings
Financial History Seminar
Going beyond βmarket versus stateβ: ideological struggles in explaining the existence and longevity of the 1922 Grain Futures Act
Financial History Seminar
What caused Chicago bank failures in the Great Depression? A look at the 1920s
Financial History Seminar
State Dissolution, Sovereign Debt and Default: Lessons from Irish independence.
Financial History Seminar
The international monetary arrangement is dysfunctional: surges in cross-border investment flows are the source of financial turbulence.
Financial History Seminar
Jacques Necker's Compte rendu au roi (1781) and the Transformation of Modern Political Discourse
Financial History Seminar
Monetary policy and financial repression in Britain, 1951-59
Financial History Seminar
This time is different: causes and consequences of British banking instability, 1830-2010
Financial History Seminar
Finance and the real economy.
Financial History Seminar
Crowdfunding an early modern startup: mapping investment in the East India Company
Financial History Seminar
The political economy of inflation in the 1970s
Financial History Seminar
The Irish Famine and British Financial Crisis
Financial History Seminar
Contagion and Intervention in the 1772-3 Credit Crisis
Financial History Seminar
Saving the City: The Great Financial Crisis of 1914
Financial History Seminar
Why Zambia Failed: Institutional Degradation and Economic Decline Since 1964
Financial History Seminar
Predicting the Past: Understanding the Causes of Bank Distress in the Netherlands in the 1920s
Financial History Seminar
The Disappearing Equity Risk Premium on the 1920s NYSE
Financial History Seminar
The Pricing Revolution in Marine Insurance, 1600-1824
Financial History Seminar
A Global Census of Corporations in 1910
Financial History Seminar
Scandal!: American business magazines in the Great Depression
Financial History Seminar
Farewell to Prices and Incomes Policy
Financial History Seminar
Of Rules and Exceptions: Financing a Modern Steel Industry in the United States, 1865-1888
Financial History Seminar
The formative years of a modern corporation: the Dutch East India Company, 1602-1623
Financial History Seminar
Making the market: trading securities at the Bank of England during the late eighteenth century
Financial History Seminar
Re-thinking the origins of the British public debt, 1643-1742
Financial History Seminar
The Role of Venture Capital in the Innovation Economy
Financial History Seminar
The economy of Spain in the eurozone before and after the crisis of 2008
Financial History Seminar
Asymmetric Propagation of Financial Crises During the Great Depression
Financial History Seminar
The First Global Emerging Markets Investor: The Foreign and Colonial Investment Trust, 1870-1913
Financial History Seminar
New Evidence on the First Financial Bubble
Financial History Seminar
Inventing a secondary market for sovereign debt in later medieval England
Financial History Seminar
A Shareholder Lawsuit in Fourteenth-Century Toulouse
Financial History Seminar
The Market for Bank Stocks and the Rise of Deposit Banking in New York City, 1866-1897
Financial History Seminar
Financial innovation and the crisis
Financial History Seminar
βMidas, transmuting all, into paperβ: the Bank of England and the Banque de France during the Napoleonic Wars
Financial History Seminar
Regulatory Capture in Microfinance: The Irish Loan Fund Board, 1860-1914
Financial History Seminar
An Italian bank and its international and local credit networks: Filippo Borromei & company of Bruges and London in the 1430s
β οΈ http://www.history.qmul.ac.uk/research/borromei/index.html
Financial History Seminar
'The South Sea Bubble of 1720: rational bubble or gambling mania?'
Financial History Seminar
Regulatory responses to financial crises: Spain, 1850-2000
Financial History Seminar
Institutions, Deficits or Wars, on the determinants of the borrowing costs of the British government: 1688-1850 and beyond
Financial History Seminar
The Paradox of Success: Building Societies and their risk-taking behaviour in England, c. 1880-1939
Financial History Seminar
Stock market development in Germany: 1869-1925
Financial History Seminar
The Belle Epoque of International Finance: French Capital Exports, 1880β1914
Financial History Seminar
Ex post: The investment performance of collectible stamps 1865-2008
Financial History Seminar
Blissfully Ignorant: The RΓ΄le of State Financial and Managerial Assistance in the Decline of the British Shipbuilding Industry, 1945-1980
Financial History Seminar
God and risk: The role of religion in rural cooperative banking in early twentieth-century Netherlands
Financial History Seminar
The Value of Regulation and Reputation: Going Public in London and Berlin, 1900-1913
Financial History Seminar
Efficiency of the Dojima rice futures market in Tokugawa-period Japan
Financial History Seminar
Jewish Financiers in the City of London: Reality and Rhetoric, 1830 β 1914
Financial History Seminar
'Reforming the Global Reserve System; Historical Perspectives'
β οΈ This talk has been re-scheduled from the Michaelmas term, when it was delayed due to speaker illness.
Financial History Seminar
Labor Compensation in the Portuguese and Dutch Merchant Empires
Financial History Seminar
'Keynes, the Investor'
Financial History Seminar
'The Collapse of the City of Glasgow Bank, 1878, and other nineteenth century failures'
Financial History Seminar
'Household Finance in Early Modern Germany: Evidence from Personal Inventories'
Financial History Seminar
'Ottoman State Finances in European Perspective, 1500-1914'
Financial History Seminar
'Bankruptcy and Debtor's Rights in Early Modern England: Punishment to Rehabilitation'
Financial History Seminar
'Reflections from the Mirror of Folly: Lord Londonderry and the Stock Market Bubbles of Paris, Amsterdam and London in 1720'
Financial History Seminar
'Historical Banking Crises and the Rules of the Game'
Financial History Seminar
'The economics of badmouthing: Defamation, rackeetering and the French Financial Press at the end of the 19th century.'
Financial History Seminar
'The Political Economy of Competition and Credit Control'
Financial History Seminar
'Exploring the Medici-Gondi Ledgers in the Henry Charles Lea Library.'
β οΈ http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~ddc22/cfh/seminars.html
Financial History Seminar
'Quicksilver Production and Consumption in Early Modern Europe: Reflections on Premodern Commodity and Financial Markets in the Second Phase of Globalization.'
β οΈ http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~ddc22/cfh/seminars.html
Financial History Seminar
'Shattered on the Rock? British Financial Stability from 1866 to 2007'
β οΈ http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~ddc22/cfh/seminars.html
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