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Index
Cover
Half-title Page
Title Page
Contents
Epigraph
Preface
Prologue: It Must Now Necessarily be a Bank
Part One: 1694–1815
1. Services to the Nation
2. A Great Engine of State
3. A Steady and Unremitting Attention
4. An Elderly Lady in the City
Part Two: 1815–1914
5. All the Obloquy
6. The Effects of Tight Lacing
7. Matters of Conduct and Behaviour
8. Money Will Not Manage Itself
9. Wonderfully Youthful in Spirit – Considering
Part Three: 1914–46
10. The Kipling Man
11. Look Busy Anyway
12. The Dogs Bark
Part Four: 1946–97
13. Not a Study Group
14. Honest Money
15. Entering from Stage Right
16. Sunny Offs
17. Serious Misgivings
18. Welcome and Long Overdue
Postscript: You Just Don’t Know When
Notes
Acknowledgements
A Note on the Author
Index
Plates Section
Picture Credits
Also available by David Kynaston
Modernity Britain: A Shake of the Dice, 1959–1962
Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957–1959
Family Britain, 1951–1957
Austerity Britain, 1945–1951
Copyright Page
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