dc.contributor.author | Murphy, Anne | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-06-25T13:20:58Z | |
dc.date.available | 2015-06-25T13:20:58Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-09-06 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Murphy , A 2015 , ' ‘Writes a fair hand and appears to be well qualified’ : the recruitment of Bank of England clerks, 1800-1815 ' , Financial History Review , vol. 22 , no. 1 , pp. 19-44 . https://doi.org/10.1017/S0968565015000013 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0968-5650 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2299/16086 | |
dc.description | This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited | |
dc.description.abstract | The financial strains of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars had a significant impact on the Bank of England. In its position as banker to the state and manager of the state’s debt, it experienced a significant increase in workload and thus was forced rapidly to expand its workforce. From a complement of around 300 in the mid-1780s, the number of clerks employed had increased to over 900 in 1815. Using a unique set of records preserved in the Bank’s archives, this article investigates the backgrounds and skills of the men recruited during the expansion of the early nineteenth century. It finds a significant gap between the skills required by the Bank and the skills possessed by its potential workforce. | en |
dc.format.extent | 404359 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Financial History Review | |
dc.subject | banking; recruitment; human capital; skills. | |
dc.title | ‘Writes a fair hand and appears to be well qualified’ : the recruitment of Bank of England clerks, 1800-1815 | en |
dc.contributor.institution | School of Humanities | |
dc.contributor.institution | Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Research Institute | |
dc.contributor.institution | History | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | |
rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.1017/S0968565015000013 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
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