Till Time's Last Sand: A History of the Bank of England 1694-2013

"Brilliant and ambitious A vivid snapshot of how Britain experienced the late 1950s and early ‘60s that emphasizes, rather than blurs, its complexity and contradictions." - New York Times Book Review"Kynaston adds yet more fascinating detail to his extraordinary pointilliste portrait of postwar British society." - Wall Street Journal"Modernity Britain, an all-enveloping and mesmerizing social panorama, continues Mr. In addition to sifting through expert opinions on every important aspect of mid-century British life As a testament to and reflection of one nation’s irreducible complexity

He lives in England. . He is currently a visiting professor at Kingston University. He is the author of three volumes published collectively as the Tales of a New Jerusalem: Austerity Britain, 1945–1951; Family Britain, 1951–1957; and Modernity Britain, 1957–1962. David Kynaston has been a professional historian since 1973 and has written fift

The Bank of England offers an authoritative, insightful yet accessible portrait of one of our key national institutions.. His approach, as in his wonderful and bestselling Tales of a New Jerusalem series, is essentially chronological, with a narrative that does full justice to the leading episodes, characters and themes. There has never been a modern, authoritative and accessible single-volume history – David Kynaston's will be the first, and has been written with the Bank's cooperation and with complete access to its archives. 'Not an ordinary bank, but a great engine of state,' Adam Smith declared about the Bank of England as long ago as 1776. It is a history that gives proper treatment to the important debates over the years about the Bank's purpose and modes of operation, while also drawing on a huge amount of original research.From the founding of the bank in 1694, in the midst of the English financial revolution, through wars and financial crises, and ending in 2013, with Mark Carney succeeding Mervyn King as governor. covering such aspects as monetary policy, exchange rate policy, relations with government, relations with the City, relations with other central banks, and much else, but Kynaston's history also gives the reader a real sense of the often distinctive 'domestic' side of the Bank, evoki