Anne Murphy

Anne joined us in March 2020 from the University of Hertfordshire where she was the Dean of the School of Humanities. She held previous roles as a lecturer in History, Head of History and Associate Dean Research. Her first career was in the City trading interest rate and foreign exchange derivatives.

Her research focuses on early modern financial markets and investment behaviour, and the organisation and management of the 18th-century Bank of England. Anne has published extensively on financial, social and economic history. She won the Economic History Society’s first monograph prize in 2010 for her monograph ‘The Origins of English Financial Markets: investment and speculation before the South Sea Bubble’.