Forrest Capie is Professor of Economic History at Cass Business School, City University, London, where he was Head of … Social Sciences. He was editor of the Economic History Review and served on the editorial boards of other journals in the …, Economica, the Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking, the Economic History Review, European Economic History, and British …

to document the portfolio of bills that was brought up to the Bank of England for discount and study the behavior of the … Bank of England during the crisis of 1866 (the so-called Overend- Gurney panic) when the Bank began adopting lending of … include: (a) the statistical predominance of foreign bills in the material brought to the Bank of England; (b) the correlation …