People
Dr Bernard Attard
Associate Professor in Economic History
School/Department: History Politics and International Relations, School of
Telephone: +44 (0)116 252 2798
Email: bpa1@leicester.ac.uk
Profile
Research
Publications
Selected publications since 2000:
(2024). We, Us and Them: “Robinsonian Collaboration” in a British World. In J. Mann & B. Zielinski (Eds.), Reflecting on the British World: Essays in Honour of Carl Bridge (pp. 13-38). New York: Peter Lang.
(2023). Informal Empire: The Origin and Significance of a Key Term. Modern Intellectual History, 20(4), 1219-1250. Open Access.
(2016). Imperial central banks? The Bank of England, London & Westminster Bank, and the British Empire before 1914. In O. Feiertag & M. Margairaz (Eds.), Les banques centrales et l'etat-nation (pp. 189-212). Paris: Presses de Science Po
(2013). The London Stock Exchange and the Colonial Market: The City, Internationalisation and Power. In C. Dejung & N. P. Petersson (Eds.), The Foundations of Worldwide Economic Integration: Powers, Institutions, and Global Markets, 1850-1930 (pp. 89-111). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
(2013). Wakefieldian investment and the birth of new societies, c. 1830 to 1930. In C. Lloyd, J. Metzer & R. Sutch (Eds.), Settler Economies in World History (pp. 371-402). Leiden: Brill.
(2013). Bridgeheads, 'Colonial Places' and the Queensland Financial Crisis of 1866. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 41(1), 11-36.
(2012). Making the colonial state: development, debt and warfare in New Zealand, 1853-76. Australian Economic History Review, 52(2), 101-27.
(2007). From Free-trade Imperialism to Structural Power: New Zealand and the Capital Market, 1856-68. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 35(4), 505-527.
(2007). New Estimates of Australian Public Debt and Capital Raised in London, 1849-1914'. Australian Economic History Review, 47(2), 155-177.
(2004). Moral Suasion, Empire Borrowers and the New Issue Market during the 1920s. In R. C. Michie & P. Williamson (Eds.), The British Government and the City of London in the Twentieth Century (pp. 195-214). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
(2000). Making a Market: The Jobbers of the London Stock Exchange, 1800-1986. Financial History Review. 7(1), 5-24
(2000). Between Empire and Nation: Australia's External Relations 1901-39. C. Bridge & B. P. Attard (Eds.), Melbourne: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Supervision
Teaching
I convene, or have recently convened (sometimes with a colleague), the following modules:
- HS1000 Making History
- HS1002 The Shock of the Modern
- HS2329 A World Connected: Welfare, Economy and Government since 1945
- HS3614 Britain's Imperial Economy: Power, Wealth and Colonialism, 1830-1914
I have also contributed as a lecturer and tutor to:
- HS1012 Global History
Finally, I supervise students working on dissertations for HS3510.