The Bank of England celebrated its tercentenary in the summer of 1994, with a variety of functions and publications, of which this is one. The initiative for this volume came from outside, but was supported by the Bank, where a conference was held. The papers presented there make up the bulk of the book.
The very praiseworthy ambition of the editors and organisers seems to have been to provide as much coverage as possible of the Bank's history in both its domestic and international setting from its founding to the present day - and to do this thematically. To a large extent this has been achieved with a long sweep of history taking place within each essay. The Opening …
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