1. Accounting, history and accounting history

2. Accounting history Chapter on Auditing in Walker and Edwards 2008 The Routledge Companion to Accounting History Themes of audit history include The growth (and decline) of professions Risk Internationalisation

3. Accounting and history Accounting and corporate governance Women and investment Working-class women and money management

4. Accounting and corporate governance UK companies 1900-1939 How much did they tell their shareholders? In the financial reports In the directors’ speeches to the AGM What did the directors talk about? Industrial relations The tax burden The service of industry to the nation

5. Women and investment

6. Women Investors in England and Wales, 1870 to 1930 How important were women as wealth holders? What investments did they choose? What were their attitudes to risk? What effects did regional location have on choice? http://www.womeninvestors.org.uk /

7. Working-class women and money management

8. Managing via: Savings banks Cooperative societies Friendly societies/Christmas clubs Employee schemes Insurance Borrowing, pawning, credit cards Motives/management/success ?