Till Time's Last Sand: A History of the Bank of England 1694-2013
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| Rating | : | 4.37 (946 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1408868563 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 896 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-08-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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His method is to immerse first himself, then his readers, in a deep quotidian fabric of the time, making every strand visible before gradually lifting his gaze and revealing the wider pattern" - Financial Times. Kynaston’s grand project of chronicling everyday life in Britain from the end of World War II to the beginning of the Thatcher era with whopping big books in which the author marshals vast quantities of data to create, dot by pointillistic dot, a vivid national portrait Kynaston, who seems to miss nothing, is like an air traffic controller, picking up incoming planes when they are tiny blips and following their progress intently throughout the book." - New York Times"Over the past eight years, while most people were updating their phone apps, David Kynaston has been publishing the definitive history of Britain from 1945 to 1979 As a sociological histo
He lives in England. . 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 fifteen books, including The City of London (1994&ndash
Before now no modern, authoritative, and accessible single-volume history has existed, and David Kynaston's account has been written with the Bank's cooperation and with complete access to its archives.Kynaston's 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. Till Time's Last Sand offers an authoritative, insightful, yet accessible portrait of one of the world's key institutions.. It is a history that gives proper treatment to important debates over the years about the Bank's purpose and modes of operation, while also drawing on a huge amount of original research. Kynaston covers the founding of the Bank in 1694 in the midst of the English financial revolution, through wars and financial crises, ending in 2013.The Bank of England has a largely unknown but fascinating history. The authorized history of the Bank of England by David Kynaston, Britain's leading social historian.The Bank of England is now more than 320 years old, and for the vast majority of that time it has been central in British history, with an increasingly high profile in recent years