Guide to the Records of the Bank of England (as filmed by the AJCP), 1781-1960
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Summary
- Collection number:
- M2924-M2970
- Creator:
- Bank of England
- Extent:
- 391 items
- Language:
- English
- Preferred citation:
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Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
- Availability:
- Available
- Access conditions:
- Available for reference.
Background
- Content Summary:
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Accounts, correspondence, memoranda and other papers relating to Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia. They originated in various departments, including Accounts, Administration, Cashier's, Exchange Control, Economic Intelligence, Governor's and Secretary's, Overseas. Among the topics covered are: issues of stocks; UK trade with the Empire; Empire Marketing Board; Empire cotton; finances of the Dutch East Indies; Empire trade; migration within the British Empire; banking legislation; banking statistics; exchange control; money supply; gold reserves; wool shipment; gold production; mineral reports; affairs of Commonwealth Bank of Australia and Reserve Bank of Australia; Bank of New Zealand; and the 1930 Niemeyer Mission to Australia. There are also some letters and petitions from convicted forgers and transportees to the Bank of England requesting assistance to purchase stores and clothing for the voyage to New South Wales.
Major correspondents include W.B. Gunn, Sir James Allen, Ernest Toms, Sir Claude Reading, H.C. Coombs, Sir Harry Sheehan, S.M. Bruce, Sir Ernest Riddle, Sir Granville Ryrie, J.R. Collins, Sir Otto Niemeyer, Leslie Lefeaux, Walter Nash, Sir Henry Batterbee, Sir James Parr, E.C. Fussell, Sir James Garrick, Sir Thomas Robinson, Sir Alfred Davidson, L.G. Melville, Sir John Forrest, A.H. Lewis, L.U. Rusden and R.W. Dalton.
The Archive Department operates a 30 year rule. Files which contain material dated after 1961 were not available at the time of filming.
- Biographical / Historical:
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The Bank of England was founded by Act of Parliament in 1694 as the first public bank in the British Isles, and since that time it has been at the centre of the British banking system. During the eighteenth century, the Bank developed its main function of acting as bankers to the government and to the banking system, which included management of the National Debt and responsibility for the note issue in England and Wales - although a complete monopoly of this was not achieved until 1921.
By the end of the century it had gradually moved away from ordinary commercial activity as its role as a central bank developed.
The Bank was nationalised in 1946, and today its functions include the implementation of monetary policy through market operations and the exercise of supervision over deposit taking institutions and over the wholesale markets for money, foreign exchange and gold bullion. More generally, the Bank oversees the operations of the financial system as a whole, providing the government with economic analysis and advice.
Access and use
- Conditions Governing Access:
- Available for Access.
- Conditions Governing Use:
- Many of the records digitised as part of the AJCP are still in copyright. Readers wishing to publish or reproduce documents should seek permission, in the first instance, from the owner of the original material.
- Preferred citation:
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Acknowledgement of use of this material should refer to the location of the original material and to the Australian Joint Copying Project.
Items from this collection should include references to the location of the original material and to the AJCP nla.obj number, which serves as the online identifier for the digital copy.
Example: M Series: Journal of Capt. James Cook, 18 February 1770, British Library Add. MS 27885 (AJCP ref: http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-1234)
- Location of this collection:
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Parkes PlaceCanberra ACT 2600, Australia
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