We use daily transactional ledger data from the Bank of England's Archive to test whether and to what extent the Bank … of England during the mid-nineteenth century adhered to Walter Bagehot's rule that a central bank in a financial crisis …. We find that the Bank's behaviour during this period broadly conforms to Bagehot's rule, though with variation across the …

Bank of England -- ch. 6. The early transactions of the Bank of England -- ch. 7. The early transactions of the Bank of … England (continued) -- ch. 8. The salient features of English banking history in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries …