Anne Murphy
I am Reader in History and Associate Dean for Research in the School of Humanities at the University of Hertfordshire. I came to academia after spending twelve years working in the City trading interest rate and foreign exchange derivatives. My research focuses on early modern financial markets and investment behaviour and the organisation and management of the 18th-century Bank of England. The former interest has also led to an extensive exploration of the correspondence of the Jeake family of Rye, which, among all sorts of interesting gems, contains a series of letters detailing Samuel Jeake's use of London’s financial markets during the 1690s.
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
27 December 2018
Thomas Rowlandson, The Bank (London, 1792), showing a view of the Rotunda.© The Trustees of the British Museum. Industrialisation was not the only driver of change during the eighteenth...
A Page in the Life of Elizabeth Jeake: unfeigned love among mercantile matters
27 December 2018
In the absence of her own writings and her virtual absence from the many pages of Samuel’s writings, Elizabeth’s life can only be reconstructed from the letters she left...
Sharing skills: baking, curating, presenting and surviving a sharknado apocalypse!
20 February 2018
Every year the University of Hertfordshire History department spend a weekend at Cumberland Lodge in Windsor Great Park. Staff and students from our undergrad and postgrad communities...
How to speculate according to the ‘merchant principle’
11 December 2017
Price data for financial instruments and commodities was relatively easy to access during the eighteenth century. We know that price lists, such as Castaing’s Course of the Exchange,...