From Crisis to Crisis

Awarded the 2019 BAC Wadsworth Prize having made an outstanding contribution to the study of British business history Fills a gap in the historiography of the evolution of the British banking system Aims to uncover why so many merchant banks failed in the interwar period and what the survivors learned from the misfortune of their less successful competitors Identifies almost 100 merchant banking firms during this period

Brian OSullivan is a Visiting Research Fellow at Kings College, London, UK. He completed his PhD in 2015 at Birkbeck College, London, UK. He has spent most of his career in the asset management industry, including time with two merchant banks: Guinness Mahon and Schroders. He is currently Chief Operating Officer of Thomas Miller Investment. Previously he was a Senior Vice President at State Street Bank. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants.