Dr Lucy Newton
International Business and Strategy
Senior Lecturer of Business History
Programme Director, Henley Full-Time MBA
Email: l.a.newton@henley.reading.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0) 118 378 5045
Location: (Whiteknights) Room 148
Lucy Newton is a Senior Lecturer in Business History at Henley Business School. Lucy has taught modules on the evolution of multinational enterprise and the development of international business. She currently teaches MBA Reputation and Responsibility, Undergraduate Business Ethics and Evolution of Entrepreneurship and Masters level Corporate Social Responsibility. During her time at Henley, Lucy has been responsible for running the post-graduate pre-experience programmes and the undergraduate programmes in the Business School. She led the redesign of the Undergraduate programmes offered by Henley and launched a new 4-year degree in Business and Management in 2010, which has successfully increased recruitment of high calibre undergraduate students. She is currently the programme Director of the New Full-Time MBA at Henley Business School. Lucy researches and publishes business history in top quality international journals and presents her research outputs at a variety of international conferences.
By area: Banking history, including the development and marketing of English retail and multinational banks during the 19th century and 20th centuries. Other areas of interest include industrial regional clusters; the history of women's investment; the history of corporate governance; the history of trust in business; and the history of the manufacture and marketing of consumer goods in the 19th century.
By industry: Banking, finance and consumer goods.
By geography: British domestic and international.
Programme Director of the New Fulltime MBA at Henley Business School. Module convenor for Business Ethics on Undergraduate programmes. Modules convenor for the Evolution of Entrepreneurship on Undergraduate programmes. Teacher on MBA module Reputation and Responsibility. Teacher on Master module Corporate Social Responsibility.
2012 (forthcoming), ‘Advertising, promotion, and the rise of a national building society movement in interwar Britain’ Business History (with Peter Scott).
2010, ‘The Birth of Joint Stock Banking: a Comparison of England and New England in the Nineteenth Century’, Vol. 84 (1), pp. 27-52, Business History Review.
2007, 'Jealous monopolists? British banks and responses to the Macmillan Gap during the 1930s', Vol. 8, Issue 4, Enterprise and Society: 881- 919 (with Peter Scott).
2006, ‘Female investors in the first English and Welsh commercial joint-stock banks’, Accounting Business and Financial History, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 315-340 (with P. L. Cottrell).
2000, 'Trust and virtue in banking: the assessment of borrowers by bank managements at the turn of the twentieth century', Financial History Review, Volume 7, Part 2, pp. 177-199.
Journals
Editor, Business Archives: Sources and History (Business Archives Council) 1995-98.Numbers published, 70, 72, 74 and 76.
Editor Business History News (ISSN 9062-9440), numbers published, 16, 17, 18 and 19.
Reviews of academic books Business History Review, The Economic Journal, Economic History Review, Business History, Business
Archives: Sources and History, and Vierteljahrschrift für- und Wirstschaftsgeschichte.
Editor (with Sara Kinsey) International banking in an age of transition (Aldershot, 1998).
Chapters in edited books
'British retail banking in the twentieth century: decline and renaissance in industrial lending' in R. Coopey and P. Lyth (eds), Business in Britain in the Twentieth Century Decline and Renaissance? (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
'Decline and Renewal of British Multinational Banking', in R. Coopey and P.Lyth (eds), Business in Britain in the Twentieth Century Decline and Renaissance? (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) (with Geoffrey Jones).
'Company legislation in nineteenth century Britain', J. Maltby and J. Rutterford (eds) Women and Money, 1700-1900 (Routledge, 2008) (with P. L. Cottrell).
'Women investors in early joint stock banks', J. Maltby and J. Rutterford (eds) Women and Money, 1700-1900 (Routledge, 2008) (with P. L. Cottrell).
'Capital Networks in the Sheffield Region, 1850-1885' in Mark Casson and Marina Della Giusta (eds) The Economics Of Networks (Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, 2008)
'Government, the Banks & Industry in Interwar Britain', in T. Gourvish (ed.), Business and Politics in Europe, 1900-1970 (Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 145-168.
'Networks and clusters: capital networks in the Sheffield region, 1850-1885', in John F. Wilson and Andrew Popp (eds.), Industrial Clusters and Regional Business Networks in England, 1750-1970 (Aldershot, 2003), pp. 130-154.
'Banking liberalisation in England and Wales, 1826-1857' in R. Tilly and R. Sylla (eds.), The State, financial systems and economic modernisation (Cambridge, 1999) (with P. L. Cottrell).
'English banking concentration and internationalisation: contemporary debate, 1880-1920', in Sara Kinsey and Lucy Newton (eds.), International banking in an age of transition (Aldershot, 1998), pp. 57-89.
'Towards financial integration: the development of English joint stock banks in London and the provinces', in Ulf Olsson (ed.) Business and European integration since 1800 (Gothenburg, 1997), pp. 316-331.
'The archivist, the historian and research co-operation', in Manfred Pohl (ed.) The sixth European colloquium on bank archives: bank archives and the user (Aldershot, 1997), pp. 28-39 (with Sara Kinsey).
Conferences organised at the Centre for International Business History, Henley Business School, and external funding received:
2000:
'Financing growth: institutional development of the financial service sector 1700-1970' 2001: 'Industrial districts and regions'
2003:
'Trust and reputation in business' Invitations have been made to speak at national and international conferences and seminar series, including those held at the Business History Unit, London School of Economics; The Business History Conference, USA; the History Department, University of Birmingham; and the Business Archives Council annual conference.
Papers have also been presented at conferences after competitive submissions to the following: the European Business History Association Annual Conference; the Association of Business Historians Annual Conference; the Economic History Society Annual Conference; the Business History Conference, USA; conferences of the European Association of Banking History; and conferences at the Business School, University of Warwick.
Research Project: ‘ Made in Britain. Manufacturing and Selling Household Goods in Britain (1851-1914)’, with Francesca Carnevali, University of Birmingham.
Research students supervised: Mior Harris Mior Harun, ‘The Influence of Cultural and Religious Values on Advertising Content and Appeal: A Cross-Cultural Study of the UK and Malaysia’, entry in October 2008 (supervised with Peter Scott). Kabir Mohammed, ‘Does Do-Good Culture Yield Value’, January 2001- present (supervised with Simon Booth). Registration currently suspended. Malcolm Dowden, ‘Law, litigation and industrial development in South Wales, c. 1760-1850’. 2000-2003, part-time. Registration currently suspended. Internal examiner for Shakila Jacob, Competition and co-operation: US FDI in Malaya, 1870-1957, Awarded December 2004.