| Level | Item |
| Reference Number (click to see whole series/group) | M5/533 |
| Extent | 1 item |
| Title | SECRETARY'S DEPARTMENT: WAR HISTORY (UNPUBLISHED) - VOLUME 1, INTERNAL FINANCE |
| Date | 1939 - 1945 |
| Admin History | J A C Osborne was commissioned to write a history of the Bank's activities during the Second World War. Having also written the history of the First World War. Osborne retired in 1947 and work on the history was taken over by R E H Allport,who, on his retirement as Principal of the Statistics Office was re-employed as a temporary clerk. Allport finished the history in 1950 with the help of L A Gash who wrote a substantial section about the Bank's wartime evacuation to Hampshire, where he had lived throughout the war. It was decided not to publish this very detailed history so it remains in 'orderly draft form'' but bound into seven volumes. It was never indexed and a decision was made not to give details of the Bank sources used. Details of the writing of this and the earlier history of the First World War can be found in file reference G15/578. Working paprts for the book were kept until 1965 when they were destroyed |
| Description | Early Measures; Currency Advances; Postal Orders, Scottish and Irish Bank Notes; Press Censorship; Money Market: Standstill Bills; Special Advances to Acceptors; Discount Market; Internal Borrowings to 1940; 3% War Loan; Conversions; Defence Loans and National Loans Acts; Bank Rates and Markets Rates; Floating Debt etc, Treasury Bills, Treasury Deposit Receipts (TDRs), Tax Reserve Certificates; Tap Loans; War Savings Week; Committee on Small Savings, 1939 and 1943; Savings Certificates; Defence Bonds; Table of channels of Central Government Borrowing; Bank Notes; Bank's War-time activities with War Office (Bank Notes); Committee on Post-War Domestic Finance; Agriculture. Written in [1950] by Osborne and Allport. |
| Original Reference | M81_26 |
| Keyword | Bank History; Second World War; World War Two; WWII |
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