Jesse Norman

Daily life at the 18th-century Bank of England

Anne L. Murphy provides a vivid picture of clients, clerks and couriers, pay and perks, cases of fraud and incompetence and the underappreciated threat of fire and violence

‘The Great Hall, Bank of the England’, from Ackermann’s The Microcosm of London, 1809. [Getty Images]

  • Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England

    Anne L. Murphy

    Princeton, pp. 288, £30

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