Analyses the reaction of the Victorian Treasury to fiscal and financial crises in the nineteenth century
Macroeconomically analyses the causes of Victorian financial crises in Britain and Ireland
Explores the relationship between financial crises and exchange-rate policy, a subject where there has been a revival of interest amongst academics in recent years
Considers Great Britain and Ireland together as part of a single monetary union
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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.