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?

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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