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The City of London as a Global Financial Centre
In one of the final presentations given at the Tipping Points Annual Conference, Prof Ranald Michie presents the history of London as a global financial centre before and after the 2007-08 banking crisis and subsequent euro debt crisis. He explains how London became the global financial centre it is today. He also talks about tipping […]
British Bank Stability and Financial Crisis since 1945
July 9, 2012 by Matthew Hollow
In a lively and energetic talk, Professor Ranald Michie provided those in attendance at the Tipping Points Conference with a fresh insight into the financial turmoil that has recently engulfed the British banking sector. Looking first at some of the most prominent explanations that have been put forward by the press and politicians, Professor Michie […]
How surnames spread in the UK
Intuitively you might expect that in the modern mobile society of the UK your surname would tell you very little about where you hail from. Not so it would seem. At the Tipping Points conference Dr James Cheshire from UCL presented a fascinating paper on the spatial distribution of surnames. The fashion for inheritable surnames […]
August 20, 2012 by IHRR
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