Anne L. Murphy is a lecturer in early modern history at the University of Hertfordshire
Research Summary:
Before returning to education Anne worked for a number of years as a derivatives trader in the City. Her research interests derive mainly from the insights gained during that time and concern the development of Britain’s financial systems, the behaviour of investors and the function and relevance of financial information from the early modern period to the present day.
Anne’s current research project focuses on the Bank of England during the later eighteenth century. It draws on an audit of the Bank’s various departments conducted in 1783 and will provide a unique insight into the workings of an institution that, by the late eighteenth century, was viewed as part of the British constitution. The principal outcome of the project will be a monograph entitled, The Grand Palladium of Public Credit: the Bank of England during the later eighteenth century.
Recent publications:
Books:
The Origins of English Financial Markets: investment and speculation before the South Sea Bubble (Cambridge University Press) [forthcoming, October 2009].
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Articles in refereed journals:
‘Trading options before Black-Scholes: a study of the market in late seventeenth-century London’, Economic History Review, 62, S1 (2009), pp. 8-30.
‘"Come vanno i titoli"? Informazione e investimenti a Londra alla fine del XVII secolo’ Quaderni Storici, XLI (2007), pp. 133-154.
‘Dealing with uncertainty: managing personal investment in the early English national debt’, History, 91 (2006), pp. 200-217.
‘Lotteries in the 1690s: investment or gamble?’ Financial History Review, 12 (2005), pp. 227-246.
‘Learning the business of banking: the recruitment and training of the Bank of England’s first tellers’: Business History [forthcoming]. |
