Michael Collins

Michael Collins

Michael Collins is a professor of financial history at Leeds University Business School and is an expert on bank-corporate relations and central banking. His current research projects include ‘Bank Provision of SME Finance, 1940-70’ and ‘Institutional Investors and the Development of the British Capital Market, 1900-1960’. His recent publications include Michael Collins & Mae Baker, Commercial Banks and Industrial Finance in England and Wales, 1860-1913.

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Tribes of clutter

  • 20 November 2008
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A new study of contemporary Londoners' possessions and the values they attach to them reveals a shift of allegiance away from wider society and towards the individual household

Even Blacker Monday?

  • 19 October 2007

Despite its severity, the 1987 crash had a relatively mild impact on the real economy. But what about the present day situation?

Tiananmen Square

20 years on

Desperately seeking democracy

Nina Power

Newspeak's legacy

Bamboozle, baffle and blindside

Television

Simon Schama

Simplistic Simon says: “Look at me, everyone!”

Theatre

Liberal guilt

Watch out for the bleeding-heart liberal

Vernon Bogdanor

Worse than Profumo

End of the party

Nicky Wire

The way I see it

Nicky Wire: The way I see it

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Will China rule the world?

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