News: Archive for 2022
Baring Archive PhD scholarship opportunity on the Role of Slavery in the British Financial Sector
Posted on Monday, 16th May 2022
The Baring Archive is pleased to announce that a PhD scholarship focussed on the role of slavery in the British financial sector is being offered in partnership with the University of Leeds.
#FromtheArchives - Guano trade
Posted on Tuesday, 26th April 2022
A letter in the Baring Archive provides an insight into the trade of what we might regard as an unusual commodity - bird poo. Guano is the accumulated excrement of seabirds and is a highly effective organic fertiliser.
#FromtheArchives - Brazilian Coffee Loan
Posted on Monday, 14th March 2022
In the 1920s Barings, acting with two other London merchant banks, lead-managed several sterling bond issues for the Brazilian Government and for Brazilian state governments. One issue of note was the 1922 £7 million 7.5% 30-year bond issued for the United States of Brazil Government.
#FromtheArchives: Oriental Bank Corporation
Posted on Tuesday, 25th January 2022
A set of share certificates deposited with Barings provides a window into the world of colonial investment in the mid-19th century.