"Mr. Kynaston makes the pages turn with his focus on the human side of things. A master of historical detail, he was the bank's designated biographer, a status that gave him free run of the Old Lady's archives." - Wall Street Journal "An intricate tale . It's also relevant to the present day, providing valuable context at a time when many are questioning the models and methods that central bankers use to manage the economy." - Bloomberg "Kynaston's aim is to provide a history of the Bank for the general reader and in this he triumphantly succeeds, providing a worthy complement to the notable series of books on different periods of the Bank's history . wonderfully readable." - Financial Times "For finance wonks, a good-as-gold tome as imposing as the institution it covers--and with every promise of enduring accordingly.

" - Kirkus Reviews "The Old Lady of Threadneedle Street has been waiting for a biographer who could do justice to the richness of her story . This is the work of a scholar with a gift for illuminating every square inch of each enormous canvas he chooses to paint . Kynaston brings characters large and small to life . I, for one, will hope for a second edition in a decade or so's time." - Literary Review "This mammoth history of the Bank of England is full of human detail . What the reader gets is an exemplary narrative history, with the archives plundered judiciously and plenty of focus on people and their quirks . Kynaston has produced a fascinating accompaniment to his four-volume history of the City. His portrait of a globally influential institution is rendered on an entertainingly human scale.

" - The Times "A triumph . this portrait of the Bank of England really is fascinating, at times even gripping." - Sunday Telegraph "Today's bank is much more professional, but it is nonetheless blamed by the left for failing to prevent the financial crisis and the right for its bleak forecasts of the economic costs of Brexit. So there is likely to be a ready audience for this book from David Kynaston, a distinguished and tireless historian who has already written four volumes on the City of London, among other works." - The Observer "Kynaston's access to the bank's archives--this is the official history, commissioned by the then governor Mervyn King in 2009--yields tremendous detail . This archive-led approach . yield[s] details no other historian of the bank has hitherto discovered." - Sunday Times "It is a part of Kynaston's huge achievement that such moments of insight and pleasure should accompany what has become a monumental history of our recent past.

" - The Times, on MODERNITY BRITAIN "David Kynaston is one of the great chroniclers of our modern story . Every paragraph contains some glittering nugget." - Sunday Times, on MODERNITY BRITAIN "A historian of peerless sensitivity and curiosity about the lives of individuals. His method is to immerse first himself, then his readers, in a deep quotidian fabric of the time, making every strand visible before gradually lifting his gaze and revealing the wider pattern." - Financial Times, on MODERNITY BRITAIN "Kynaston's project is already being acclaimed as one of the great achievements of modern history." - Daily Telegraph, on MODERNITY BRITAIN "Volumes full of treasure, serious history with a human face." - Hilary Mantel, OBSERVER, on MODERNITY BRITAIN.