Calming the Storms

Charles Read is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in History and an Affiliated Lecturer in Economics and History at the University of Cambridge. He is also a Fellow, Tutor, College Lecturer and Director of Studies at Corpus Christi College and a Research Associate at the Centre for Financial History at Darwin College. His previous research has won the Thirsk-Feinstein PhD Dissertation Prize, the T.S. Ashton Prize, and the New Researcher Prize of the Economic History Society and a prize from the International Economic History Association for the best doctoral dissertation completed in 2015, 2016 or 2017. He has also worked as a writer and editor at The Economist and as a research associate at an investment bank in London.

• Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Peel’s economic-policy regime change in Britain during the early nineteenth century.- Chapter 3. The ideas and policies of the Banking School.- Chapter 4. The crises of 1825 and 1837.- Chapter 5. The 1847 Crises.- Chapter 6. The 1857-58 crisis, etc.