The evolution of business history offers some radical ways forward for a discipline which is
rich in potential. This shortform book offers an expert overview of how the field has relevance …

The relationship between finance and industry in Britain has received substantial attention,
largely focusing on the role played by clearing banks as lenders to industry. This article …

Who financed the great expansion of the Victorian equity market, and what attracted them to
invest? Using data on 453 firm-years and over 172,000 shareholders, we find that the …

Using an extensive and unique data set that has been created to record the composition of
the boards of directors of the top 250 British firms between 1904 and 2010, this article builds …

As companies became larger and shareholders more numerous in nineteenth and early
twentieth-century Britain, the conventional wisdom is that the free-rider problem inhibited …

Abstract As articulated by Adam Smith, one of the central issues facing companies is that
managers will not run the business in the interests of its owners and will misuse resources …

This article examines the composition of Britain'smillionaire'population during the late 1920s
and early 1930s, based on data for living millionaires (in contrast to previous studies, which …

This collection of reported British shareholder meetings originally published between 1800
and 1920 provides scholars and students new insight into the development of big …

The periodical literature of 2015 for this period has contributed to several themes at the heart
of early medieval economic studies. The nature of urbanization, and more broadly of'central …