City Bankers, 1890-1914

City Bankers, 1890-1914
Author: Youssef Cassis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 372
Release: 1994-09-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521441889

City Bankers, 1890-1914 is a major contribution to a controversial area of economic history and to the debate about the nature of British society in the late Victorian and Edwardian eras. It provides a detailed analysis of the banking community of London between 1890 and 1914 when the City of London was the undisputed financial centre of the world.

The Material Letter in Early Modern England

The Material Letter in Early Modern England
Author: J. Daybell
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2012-04-24
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1137006064

The first major socio-cultural study of manuscript letters and letter-writing practices in early modern England. Daybell examines a crucial period in the development of the English vernacular letter before Charles I's postal reforms in 1635, one that witnessed a significant extension of letter-writing skills throughout society.