John Bradfield Room, Darwin College and Zoom


2022-01-31 17:00: The politics of money: Presidential power and the Federal Reserve System (Dr Nigel Bowles (University of Oxford))

2022-02-14 17:00: Who finances the financiers? Twenty years of HM Treasury resource accounts (Mario Pisani (HM Treasury))

2022-03-14 17:00: The Global Financial Crisis and its aftermath: a perspective from fiction and some general reflections on inter-disciplinary research (Dr Linda Arch (ICMA, University of Reading))

2022-03-28 17:00: Protectionism, deindustrialisation and European integration: the crisis of British Keynesianism revisited, 1973-1993 (Dr Colm Murphy (Institute of Historical Research))

2022-05-13 17:00: The Last Liberal Republican: An Insider's Perspective on Nixon's Surprising Social Policy (John Roy Price, Special Assistant to President Richard Nixon)

2023-01-30 17:00: An exchange rate history of the United Kingdom, 1945–1992 (Dr Alain Naef, Banque de France)

2023-02-13 17:00: What’s in a Bubble? The South Sea Bubble and the conceptual history of financial crisis. (Dr Claire Wilkinson (University of Cambridge))

2023-02-27 17:00: The Meade Committee on UK Tax Reform 1975-8 (Professor Susan Howson, University of Toronto)

2023-03-13 17:00: How Big Bang ruined the City.   Did 1980s reforms cause the 2008 financial crisis and all that followed? (Martin Vander Weyer, The Spectator)

2024-02-12 17:00: Inside Thatcher's monetarism experiment - the promise, the failure, the legacy (Sir Tim Lankester (University of Oxford))

2024-02-26 17:00: How insurers learned to stop worrying and love regulation: a City insurance man’s view of how the insurance market discovered the world of Basel and became a key risk partner for banks. (David Neckar (WTW Financial Solutions))

2024-03-11 17:00: How a ledger became a central bank: a monetary history of the Bank of Amsterdam.   (Stephen Quinn (Texas Christian University) and Will Roberds (Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta))

2025-02-03 17:00: A new history of the interwar Bank of England (Dr Robert Yee (University of Oxford))

2025-02-17 17:00: The Federal Reserve's 'rate war' and its aftermath: the political consequences of financial instability, 1966-72. (Dr Arthur Rothier-Bautzer (Centre for Financial History and GlobalCapital))

2025-03-03 17:00: What does it mean to Democratize Finance? (Dr Leah Rose Downey (University of Cambridge))

2025-03-17 17:00: Money: a Treasury-centric view (Mario Pisani (HM Treasury and King's College, London))

2026-02-02 17:00: 'Muddling through or tunnelling through?’ UK monetary and fiscal exceptionalism and the Great Inflation (Ryland Thomas (Bank of England))

2026-02-16 17:00: Bonds without borders: the Eurobond market (Chris O’Malley)

2026-03-02 17:00: The road to 1997: Bank of England operational independence in historical perspective (Dr Chetun Patel (King’s College London))

2026-03-16 17:00: Mortgages, maturity mismatching and the transformation of British banking: 1971-92 (Dr William Turkington (HM Treasury))