Staff Profile:Dr Lucy Newton

Name:

Dr Lucy Newton

Job Title:

Director of Undergraduate Studies and Senior Lecturer in Business History

Responsibilities:

Director Undergraduate Studies, Undergraduate Examinations Officer, Member of the Curators of the Library (Advisory Board for Library Services).

Areas of Interest:

Banking history (including the development of English banking in the 19th century, changes in English banking in the early twentieth century and bank marketing/advertising in the 20th century); industrial regional clusters; the history of women's investment; the history of corporate governance; and the history of trust in business.

Research groups / Centres:

.Centre for International Business History (CIBH)

Publications:

Books

• Editor (with Sara Kinsey) International banking in an age of transition (Aldershot, 1998).

Journal Articles

• 'The Birth of Joint Stock Banking: a Comparison of England and New England in the Nineteenth Century' forthcoming, Business History Review.

• 'Jealous monopolists? British banks and responses to the Macmillan Gap during the 1930s', Vol. 8, Issue 4, 2007, Enterprise and Society: 881- 919 (with Peter Scott).

• 'Female investors in the first English and Welsh commercial joint-stock banks', Accounting Business and Financial History, Vol. 16, No. 2, 2006, pp. 315-340 (with P. L. Cottrell).

• '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, 2000, pp. 177-199.

• 'Banking in the English provinces, 1826-1857: to branch or not to branch?' Business and Economic History, Nov. 1998 (with P. L. Cottrell).

• 'Regional bank-industry relations during the mid-nineteenth century: links between bankers and manufacturing in Sheffield', Business History, Vol. 38, No. 3, 1996, pp. 64-83.

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).

• 'The archivist, the historian and research co-operation', Le Carte e la Storia (Italian translation, May 1997), 18 pages (with Sara Kinsey).

Other publications

• 'My word is my bond: reputation as collateral in nineteenth century English provincial banking', Economic Research Papers, no. 599, 2001, Department of Economics, University of Warwick (with Francesco Galassi).

• 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 The Economic Journal, Economic History Review, Business History, Business Archives: Sources and History, and Vierteljahrschrift für- und Wirstschaftsgeschichte.

Research Projects:

• Advertising, promotion, and the emergence of a ‘national’ building society movement in interwar Britain
• ‘Touting for business’: British banks and their customers in the twentieth century
• Corporate governance
• Women investors
• The development of nineteenth century banking
• Banks and the finance of industry

Qualifications:

BA, PhD Leicester

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Affiliations:

A member of the Business Archives Council, editing of their annual journal Business Archives: Sources and History from 1995 and 1998 and serving on the Council's Publication Working Party during this time. Elected to and served on the Council of the Association of Business Historians (UK) (1997-2000) and was elected Trustee of the Business History Conference (US), serving from 2003-2007.

Teaching:

Undergraduate: Business Ethics (Part 3), Evolution of Entrepreneurship (Part 3), Introduction to International Business (Part 2).

Postgraduate: Corporate Social Responsibility, Evolution of the Multinational Enterprise, Strategy, Policy and Impact of Multinational Enterprise.