Table of Contents

List of illustrations and acknowledgements; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1. The nationalisation of Norman's bank; 2. Lord Keynes and the Bank: Bretton Woods and the Anglo–American Loan; 3. The false dawn and the crisis of 1947; 4. The four difficult years: from the crisis of 1947 to the Korean War; 5. Domestic monetary policy 1945–51; 6. The watershed: 1951–2; 7. The rise and fall of the Collective Approach: 1952–5; 8. 1956: the Bank and the Suez affair; 9. Convertibility: the last act: 1957–8; 10. Domestic monetary policy 1952–8: disillusion and debate; 11. The Bank and the Square Mile; 12. Envoi.

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In this 1992 book, the official history of the Bank of England was continued into the late wartime and early postwar periods.