Banking and Finance

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-Chancellor’s 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 Toms’s 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.

• Introduction (John F. Wilson, Nicholas D. Wong and Steven Toms) 1. The Move to Limited Liability Banking in Scotland and the Introduction of Bank Regulation (John Turner) 2. The Commercial Banking Industry and its Part in the Emergence and Consolidation of the Corporate Economy in Britain before 1940 (Peter Wardley) 3. Did They Have It So Good? Small Firms and British Monetary Policy in the 1950s (Francesca Carnevali) 4. Corporate Governance in Political Climate: The 'City', Government and British Leyland Motor Company (Sue Bowden)