Chapter 1 ‘A Trusted Guide of the Investing Public’: Harry Marks and the Financial News 1884–1916, Dilwyn Porter; Chapter 2 Hooley and the Bovril Company, John Armstrong; Chapter 3 Edgar Vincent, Viscount D'Abernon, and the Eastern Investment Company in London, Constantinople and Johannesburg, R.P.T. Davenport-Hines, Jean-Jacques Van Helten; Chapter 4 Sir Frederic Philipson Stow: The Unknown Diamond Magnate, Rob Turrell; Chapter 5 Financiers and The British State: The Case of Sir Ernest Cassel, Pat Thane; Chapter 6 Sir Allan Smith, The Industrial Group and the Politics of Unemployment 1919–1924, Terence Rodgers; Chapter 7 Two Autobiographical Fragments, cHUGO Hirst;