FT Alphaville " "Sept 1, Friday...Partridge Shooting begins..." Posted by Paul Murphy on Sep 07 21:39. ..." 3 Sunday...13th after Trinity...11am WAR" That's from the August-September 1939 diary of Montagu Norman, the Bank of England's longest serving governor, who held the job down from 1920 to 1944. Click to view. The whole series, running from 1913, are available here. The Bank is doing financial historians a wonderful service by digitising material from its archive. Here, for example, is a (typed) list of the original subscribers to Bank stock, when 1.2m was raised to fight the French in 1694. King William and Queen Mary put up £10,000; Tryphena Grove, a widow from Goodman Fields in London's east end, was good for £50. Related link: Digital content from the Bank Archive - Bank of England This entry was posted by Paul Murphy on Friday, September 7th, 2012 at 21:39 and is filed under Uncategorised. Tagged with bank of england.