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A Timeline of Money & Panic

15 episodes across three centuries, ordered by the year each story occurs — not the year it was written. From a beaver pelt on a Manhattan barrel to the fall of the pound, every road runs toward the Panic of 1907.

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The Three Ages
  • The Mercantile World
  • The Age of Panics
  • Modern Money
  • Panic of 1907 · keystone
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Showing 3 of 15 — British Crises

Age II · The Age of Panics

The Age of Panics

  1. 1825British Crises

    1825: The Country Banks Fall

    December 1825, London

    Seventy provincial banks fail in six weeks. Threadneedle Street learns, for the first time, what it means to be a lender of last resort.

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  2. 1847British Crises

    1847: After the Railway Mania

    1847, London

    The Bank Charter Act meets its first real test as railway paper crumbles across the counters of Lombard Street.

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  3. 1931British Crises

    1931: Off the Gold Standard

    September 1931, London

    A run on sterling, a Labour government split in three, and the quiet Sunday afternoon when Britain unpegged the pound.

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