Book of the week
Virtuous Bankers
A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England
Anne Murphy Princeton University Press, £25
A book that takes a snapshot of the Bank of England in 1783, based on a report by a team of inspectors, might sound like a dreary academic monograph of interest only to a select few. But Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of is well worth a read.