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Reference Number (click to see whole series/group)4A44/3
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Title'OFF THE RECORD', THE BANK OF ENGLAND ARCHIVE BULLETIN
DateJun 1993
DescriptionNo.3. Includes articles on the 'mystical scales' used to disguise the actual totals of gold and silver held by the Bank throughout the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries by Dr Judy Klein; Eric Dutt, who claimed to have discovered a way to manufacture gold from tungsten and boron in the 1930s, by Kenneth Moure; the rediscovery of a previously missing Building Committee minute book covering the period of the Gordon Riots in 1780 and subsequent security problems caused by the Bank's proximity to the church of St Christopher-le-Stocks. The 'Forum' section gives details of the research interests of Gerold Krozewski (post-war international relations) and Peter Cain (British Economic Imperialism, 1850-1939).
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