7 research outputs found
Warrs with forregin [sic] princes dangerous to our common-wealth: or, Reasons for forreign wars answered With a list of all the confederates from Henry the firsts reign to the end of Queen Elizabeth. Proving, that the kings of England alwayes preferred unjust peace, before the justest warre.
No full textThe French charity written in French by an English gentleman, upon occasion of Prince Harcourt's coming into England ; and translated into English by F.S.J.E.
No full textEarthquake clustering and possible fault interactions across Cook Strait, New Zealand, during the 1848 and 1855 earthquakes
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'She possessed her own fortune': Women investors from the late nineteenth century to the early twentieth century
No full textThere is a growing literature on the history of investment in Britain. However, the role played by women as investors has been almost wholly ignored. This paper argues that women were an important class of stock market investors and produces empirical evidence, most notably share registers, to show that women engaged in a number of different types of investment, and were important in both public and private companies as long-term holders of securities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The article concludes by suggesting the impact of these findings on our understanding of women's financial position and of their role in corporate governance
