‘There can be few fields of human endeavour in which history counts for so little as in the world of finance. Past experience, to the extent that it is part of memory at all, is dismissed as the primitive refuge of those who do not have the insight to appreciate the incredible wonders of the present’ J.K. Galbraith.
‘It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning’ Henry Ford
The Centre for Financial History is based at Darwin College at the University of Cambridge. Our core mission is to inform and educate policy makers, researchers and the wider public in financial history.
Our Financial History Seminar Series meets in the Lent term and is open to the public.