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An Eagle Eye: Africa in the 20th Century as viewed through the archives of Barclays Bank
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 25 April 2022
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Barclays’ international business was founded in 1925 as Barclays Bank (Dominion, Colonial and Overseas). The roots of the business lay in three 19th century banks: the Anglo-Egyptian, the Colonial, and the National Bank of South Africa. It had long been the dream of Barclays Chairman, Frederick Goodenough, to create an ‘Empire Bank’, and, by buying these three and merging them, that is precisely what he achieved. This article sets out to provide an overview of the collection and suggest avenues of future research.
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This article is based on a paper delivered at the 2014 SCOLMA Conference ‘African Trajectories: Travel and the Archive’ held at the University of Birmingham, 2nd July 2014.
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