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The author analyses the banking community of London when the City was the undisputed financial centre of the world. Attention is paid to the social origins, education, careers, business interests and fortunes of this community's members.

This study of 19th-century local government examines the role of local government officials and the social origins of this growing bureaucracy. As the predecessor of the London County Council, the Metropolitan Board of Works was an important body and its officials formed a large and significant professional group, not hitherto studied in such depth.

The story of water in the creation of urban networks is well known for its feats of engineering, for its relationship to public health and cleanliness, and for its battles over municipalization. But it also represents a chapter in the transformation of politics. Water utilities were a source of political mobilization, leading middle-class ratepayers to assert their rights as householders and citizens. This article begins with two central players in the story: the consumer defense leagues in late Victorian London and Sheffield. It then follows the conflicts over water through a period of drought in the 1890s and into the early twentieth century. Adapted from the source document.

Exploring Russia in the Elizabethan Commonwealth tells the story of English relations with Russia, from the ‘strange and wonderfull discoverie’ of the land and Elizabeth I’s correspondence with Ivan the Terrible, to the corruption of the Muscovy Company and the Elizabethan regime’s censorship of politically sensitive representations of Russia. Focusing on the life and works of Giles Fletcher, the elder, ambassador to Russia in 1588, this work explores two popular themes in Elizabethan history: exploration, travel and trade and late Elizabethan political culture. By analysing the pervasive languages of commonwealth, corruption and tyranny found in both the Muscovy Company accounts and in Fletcher’s writings on Russia, this monograph explores how Russia was a useful tool for Elizabethans to think with when they contemplated the nature of government and the changing face of monarchy in the late Elizabethan regime. It will appeal to academics and students of Elizabethan political culture and literary studies, as well as those of early modern travel and trade.

01 02 In Finance, Politics and the Dominions , Andrew Dilleyoffers a major new contribution to the history of British imperialism and of the 'British World'. Drawing on a considerable range of archival, press, and other contemporary sources, he uses a comparative approach to highlight the ways in which dependence on London finance shaped political life in Australia and Canada between 1896 and 1914, and shows how these impacts were in turn shaped by the processes of economic development in these settler capitalist societies. Deploying an innovative combination of economic, business, political, and cultural history,his studythrows new light onto debates about gentlemanly capitalism, and the cultural economy of the British world. It offers fresh insights into the history of the City of London, and into Anglo-Dominion relations, and Australian and Canadian politics, and more broadly, insists on the importance of political economy in the history of the British empire. 02 02 Andrew Dilley offers a major new study of financial dependence, examining the connections this dependence forged between the City and political life in Edwardian Australia and Canada, mediated by ideas of political economy. In doing so he reconstructs the occasionally imperialistic politic of finance which pervaded the British World at this time. 13 02 ANDREW DILLEY received his doctorate from the University of Oxford, and lectured in Imperial and Commonwealth History at King's College London before taking up his current Lectureship in History at the University of Aberdeen, UK. 31 02 A contribution to major debates on financial imperialism and British relations with the 'old' dominions, examining the impact of London finance on political life in Edwardian Canada and Australia. 04 02 List of Tables List of Graphs Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Dramatis Personae Introduction PART I: THE ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS OF CAPITAL EXPORT Capital Imports and Economic Development in Two Settler Societies Australian and Canadian Borrowing in the Edwardian City PART II: THE CITY, POLITICAL ECONOMY, AND SETTLER SOCIETIES The Rules of the Game Risk, Empire, and Britishness PART III: THE POLITICS OF FINANCE  Canadian Politics and London Finance, 1896-1914 The Politics of Finance in Three Australian States: Victoria, New South Wales, and Western Australia, 1901-1914 Influence Stumped? The Commonwealth and the City, 1901-1913 Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index   19 02 Contributes to a revival of interest in the political economy of empire and the history of the settlement empire Offers new insights into the workings of the financial sector of the City of London A comparative study of Edwardian Australian and Canadian politics, showing the impact of London finance Combines the tools of economic, business, political and cultural history in an innovative fashion

Although the misreading of Hyderabad's early nineteenth century banking firm, Palmer and Company, as scandalous, illegal, and usurious in its business practices was contested at the time in Hyderabad, and at the highest levels of the East India Company in both Calcutta and London, such conspiracy theories have prevailed and are here challenged. The Eurasian William Palmer and his partner, the Gujarati banker, Benkati Das, are best understood as indigenous sahukars or bankers. Their firm functioned like other Indian banking firms and was in competition with them in the early nineteenth century as Hyderabad State dealt with the increasing power of the British East India Company and its man-on-the-spot, the Resident. Historians need to look beyond the English language East India Company records to contextualize this important banking firm more accurately.

The 1867 Reform Act in Britain extended the electoral franchise to the skilled but propertyless urban working classes. Using stock market data and exploiting the fact that foreign and domestic equities traded simultaneously on the London market, this paper finds that investors in British firms reacted negatively to the passage of this Act. We suggest that this finding is consistent with investors foreseeing future alterations of property rights arising from the pressure that the large newly enfranchised group would bring to bear on government policy. We also suggest that our findings appear to be more consistent with the Tory political competition explanation for the Act rather than the Whig threat-of-revolution explanation.

Between the Glorious Revolution and the mid-eighteenth century the governance of the Corporation of London was transformed from an oligarchy of aldermen to a ‘rate payer's democracy’. Previous analyses of this transformation have produced a contradictory picture of how and why this shift in governance occurred. By analysing the Corporation's progress to democracy from an administrative perspective, this article argues that this process was more evolutionary in nature than has previously been suggested.

Roger Seifert has been a professor of industrial relations for 30 years in UK Universities. He specializes in teaching and researching all aspects of employment issues in the public services. Roger went to his local public school in North London. Highgate school was founded in 1585 and educated boys from the British professional classes for the purpose of running the British Empire and colonies, and being part of the ruling elite. At Oxford he studied politics, philosophy and economics, specializing in political theory and labor history. On leaving Oxford he went to the London School of Business to study for an MBA over two years. This might be a strange choice for a Marxist, but many comrades thought that the left lacked knowledge and understanding of the business and management world, and that he could help the left's understanding if he studied with the business elites from around the world. He started full-time work as a management consultant in the firm Incomes Data Services based in London.

This article shows how model dwellings companies were able to offer a solution to the 'housing problem' by profitably providing decent working-class accommodation in nineteenth-century London. Despite their success, a conjuncture of economic circumstances, ideological change, and public crowding-out led to the marginalization of model dwellings companies. This experiment to provide a market solution to a social problem represents a nineteenth-century form of ethical investment which has not been accommodated within the historiography of the development of the welfare state.