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Member of the Museums Libraries and Archives Council. He is currently President
of the Society of Archivists. An archivist throughout his working life, he joined
and developed the Rothschild Archive from 1993, becoming the first Director of
the Rothschild Archive Trust in 2000. He retired from Rothschild in 2004.
Martin Körner † was professor of early modern history at the University of Bern,
where he directed the research project ‘Bernese state finance in the early modern
period’. His many publications include Solidarités financiers suisses au XVIème
siècle (Lausanne, Payot, 1980) and ‘The Swiss Confederation’, in R. Bonney (ed.),
The Rise of the Fiscal State in Europe c.1200–1815 (Oxford, 1999).
Ginette Kurgan-van Hentenryck is professor emeritus of Université Libre de
Bruxelles and member of the Royal Academy of Belgium. Former dean of the
Faculty of Arts and president of the Institute of European Studies, she promoted
the Groupe d’Histoire du Patronat de l’U.L.B. She is the editor of Dictionnaire des
patrons en Belgique: Les hommes, les entreprises, les réseaux (1996), author of
Léopold II et les groupes financiers belges en Chine (Brussels, 1972), Rail, finance
et politique: les entreprises Philippart (1865–1890) (Brussels, 1982), Gouverner
la Générale de Belgique: Essai de biographie collective (Bruxelles, 1996), and
co-author of The Generale Bank (Brussels, 1997) and A History of European
Banking (Antwerp, 2000). Her publications concern Belgian economic and social
history as well as international relations of Belgium during the nineteenth and
twentieth centuries.
David Kynaston was born in 1951 and read Modern History at New College,
Oxford. He has been a professional historian since 1973. His principal work is a
four-volume history of the City of London, 1815–2000, published between 1994
and 2001. He has also written histories of the Financial Times, Cazenove and
LIFFE, as well as co-writing a history of Phillips & Drew. With Richard Roberts
he has co-edited a history of the Bank of England and co-written a book on the
modern City. His latest publication is Austerity Britain, 1945–1951 (2007). He is
a visiting professor at Kingston University.
Dr John Orbell was formerly Head of Corporate Information Services at ING Bank,
London Branch, where, inter alia, he was responsible for The Baring Archive and
ING’s London art collection. He retired in late 2004. He has published in the areas of
business archives and business history and is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society
and of the Royal Society of Arts. He is currently updating his earlier publication,
Tracing the History of a Business, and, with Francis Goodall and Richard Storey, is
compiling an updated bibliography of British business histories.
Edwin J. Perkins is emeritus professor of history, University of Southern
California. He earned his doctoral degree under Alfred Chandler at Johns Hopkins
University in 1972. Previously, he had earned an MBA from the University of