Central Bank, Peripheral Industry: The Bank of England in the Provinces, 1826-1913.

Abstract

Part 1 The Bank of England provincial branches: setting up the branches 1826/29 branches of a central bank - establishing the Bank of England note 1826/29-1844, the Bank and the 1884 regulation act branches of a commercial bank - the commercial decline begins, the crisis in bill discounting, the new upswing in lending 1889-1913. Part 2 Limits to central bank policy: from the Palmer Rule to Peel's act the Bank of England and the mid-nineteenth century crisis tenderness for domestic trade and industry?. Part 3 The bank and industry - the example of Birmingham, 1880-1905: the crisis in bill discounting the rise of the Industrial Branch 1880-1893 a London scandal and the reverberations in Birmingham 1893/94 the old policy under new management 1894-1897 the end of the industrial branch. Part 4 The development of central bank policy and the English provinces - a reassessment.