In 1945 Japan was a feudal monarchy that had suffered catastrophic defeat in World War II, but in fewer than…
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The high life of the Roaring Twenties came to a juddering halt on Black Tuesday October 29 1929 with the…
The year 2001 was an annus horribilis for soccer in Africa. Within the space of one month the continent saw…
During World War I prices in Germany had doubled, but the real trouble started afterwards. The new German Weimar government…
The bank panic of 1907 demonstrates that crises in the banking system are nothing new. Once confidence is lost, panic…
From the mid 19th century the French stock exchange was based in the Palais de la Bourse, in the heart…
On Friday September 24 1869 Wall Street was paying close attention to the price of gold. In the previous three…
Mid-Victorian global economics evolved under the ever-increasing arch of the British Empire. The City of London was the Empire’s engine-room,…
At the beginning of the 18th century Europe was in political chaos and by 1710, after a decade of war,…