Banking and Finance: Case studies in the development of the UK financial sector

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John Wilson is Pro Vice-Chancellor (Business and Law) at Northumbria University at Newcastle. He has published widely in the fields of business management and industrial history including ten monographs six edited collections and over seventy articles and chapters. Most notably his British Business History 1720-1994 is still being used in UK universities. He was also the founding editor of the Journal of Industrial History as well as co-editor of Business History for ten years.Nicholas D. Wong is Vice-Chancellors Senior Research Fellow at NewcastleBusiness School Northumbria University. His research areas cover historicalorganisation studies and uses of the past family business studies andentrepreneurship. He has published in Business History International Journalof Contemporary Hospitality Management and Entreprise et Histoire . Nicholaswon the John F. Mee Best Paper Award at the Academy of Management in 2018for his contribution to the Management History Division.Steven Toms spent fifteen years in senior management at Nottingham Universityas head of the undergraduate programme chair of teaching committee andresearch director before becoming Head of York Management School in 2004.Professor Tomss research interests cover the role of accounting accountabilityand corporate governance in the development of organisations particularly from a historical perspective. He is interested in perspectives that integrate financialmodels with economic and organisational theory and corporate strategy. Specificapplications range from business history in particular cotton and other textilestrades to capital markets and social and environmental accounting. He wasEditor of the journal Business History from 2007 to 2013.