Keywords
Advertising, Britain, Business, Business history, Capitalism, Commercial law, Consumption, Corporate law, Corporations, Crime and society, Culture, Economic history, Eighteenth century, Fraud, History, Literature, Morality, Nineteenth century, Nineteenth-century culture, Nineteenth-century literature, Society, Twentieth century, Twentieth century British history, Twentieth century history, Twentieth-century culture
Research Areas
History
Dr James Taylor
Senior Lecturer
Bowland College
Lancaster University
Bailrigg
Lancaster
United Kingdom
LA1 4YT
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Tel: +44 1524 592505
Affiliations
Dr Taylor's work explores the social, political, and legal dimensions of economic change in Britain since the 1700s, focusing on the rise of big business in the nineteenth century. He has published on subjects ranging from the early history of corporate governance and the regulation and punishment of commercial fraud, to the history of financial reporting and literary representations of commerce.
PhD Supervision Interests
Dr Taylor is keen to hear from students researching the following areas - topics connecting economic, social and cultural history since 1800; history of financial fraud and crime; history of joint-stock companies and corporate governance; history of advertising and consumerism. Do contact him if you would like to discuss your research plans.
Current Teaching
Hist280: The Victorians and Before: Britain, 1783-1901
Hist281: Britain in the Twentieth Century
Hist343: Advertising and Consumerism in Britain, 1853-1960
Research Interests
Dr Taylor's first monograph, Creating Capitalism, won the 2008 Economic History Society Prize for best first monograph in Economic and Social History; his second, Shareholder Democracies (co-authored with Mark Freeman and Robin Pearson), won the Ralph Gomory Prize for best business history book of 2012. His third, Boardroom Scandal, was published by Oxford University Press in spring 2013.
You can read a review of his latest article, published in Historical Research in November 2012, on the Talking Biz News website.
From 1 February to 30 April 2012 he was Visiting Research Fellow at the Research Institute for History and Culture at the University of Utrecht.
2013
Law, politics and the governance of English and Scottish joint-stock companies, 1600-1850
Freeman, M., Pearson, R. & Taylor, J. 2013 In: Business History. 17 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Boardroom Scandal: The Criminalization of Company Fraud in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Taylor, J. 04/2013 Oxford: Oxford University Press. 312 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
2012
Review of Periodical Literature Published in 2010: 1850-1945
Taylor, J. & Bradley, K. 02/2012 In: Economic History Review. 65, 1, p. 354-367, 14 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Shareholder Democracies?: Corporate Governance in Britain & Ireland before 1850
Freeman, M., Pearson, R. & Taylor, J. 2012 Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 360 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
'Watchdogs or Apologists? Financial Journalism and Company Fraud in Early Victorian Britain'
Taylor, J. 11/2012 In: Historical Research. 85, 230, p. 632-652, 21 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2011
Review of Periodical Literature Published in 2009: 1850-1945
Bradley, K. & Taylor, J. 02/2011 In: Economic History Review. 64, 1, p. 289-298, 10 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
Numbers, Character and Trust in Early Victorian Britain: The Independent West Middlesex Fire and Life Assurance Company Fraud
Taylor, J. 2011 Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800-2000. Crook, T. & O'Hara, G. (eds.). Routledge, p. 185-202 18 p. (Routledge Studies in Modern British History).
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Criminalising fraud: Victorian responses to company scandals
Taylor, J. 10/2011 In: Company Lawyer. 32, 10, p. 291-296, 6 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2010
Review of Periodical Literature Published in 2008: 1850-1945
Bradley, K. & Taylor, J. 02/2010 In: Economic History Review. 63, 1, p. 219-227, 9 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review
2009
Between Madam Bubble and Kitty Lorimer: women investors in British and Irish stock companies.
Taylor, J., Freeman, M. & Pearson, R. 2009 Women and their Money 1700-1950. Laurence, A., Maltby, J. & Rutterford, J. (eds.). Routledge, p. 95-114 20 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
2008
Politics.
Taylor, J. 2008 The Victorian Literature Handbook. Warwick, A. & Willis, M. (eds.). London: Continuum, p. 76-78 3 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
2007
'Different and better?' Scottish Joint-Stock Companies and the Law, c. 1720-1845.
Freeman, M., Pearson, R. & Taylor, J. 02/2007 In: English Historical Review. 122, 495, p. 61-81, 21 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Technological change and the governance of joint-stock enterprise in the early nineteenth century: the case of Scottish coastal shipping
Freeman, M., Pearson, R. & Taylor, J. 09/2007 In: Business History. 49, 5, p. 573-594, 22 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
'Company fraud in Victorian Britain: the Royal British Bank scandal of 1856'.
Taylor, J. 1/06/2007 In: The English Historical Review. cxxii, 497, p. 700-724, 25 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2006
History of the company: The development of the business corporation, 1700-1914, 8 vols
Taylor, J., Pearson, R. (ed.), Taylor, J. (ed.) & Freeman, M. (ed.) 2006 London: Pickering and Chatto. 1744 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
'A Doe in the City': Women Shareholders in Eighteenth- and Early Nineteenth-Century Britain.
Freeman, M., Pearson, R. & Taylor, J. 07/2006 In: Accounting, Business & Financial History. 16, 2, p. 265-291, 27 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Creating Capitalism: Joint-Stock Enterprise in British Politics and Culture, 1800-1870.
Taylor, J. 2006 Woodbridge: Boydell Press. 256 p.
Research output: Book/Report/Proceedings › Book
2005
Commercial fraud and public men in Victorian Britain.
Taylor, J. 05/2005 In: Historical Research. 78, 200, p. 230-252, 23 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Business in pictures: representations of railway enterprise in the satirical press in Britain 1845-1870.
Taylor, J. 1/11/2005 In: Past & Present. 189, p. 111-145, 35 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
2004
The Joint Stock Company in Politics.
Taylor, J. 2004 Reform and Reformers in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Turner, M. J. (ed.). Sunderland: University of Sunderland Press, p. 99-116 18 p.
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
Public or private? The origins of the corporate economy.
Taylor, J. 2004 In: Journal of Liberal History. 44, p. 30-34, 5 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
‘Office Workers’ & ‘YMCA’.
Taylor, J. 2004 The Encyclopedia of the Victorian Era. Pendergast, T. & Pendergast, S. (eds.). Danbury, Connecticut: Grolier Academic Press, Vol. 4 volu
Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings › Chapter
2001
Private property, public interest, and the role of the state in nineteenth-century Britain: the case of the lighthouses.
Taylor, J. 1/09/2001 In: Historical Journal. 44, 3, p. 749-771, 23 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Greed: The Way They Lived Then.
Taylor, J. 12/2001 In: BBC History Magazine. 2, p. 40-42, 3 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article
Monograph wins prize
23/03/2013
Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850, co-authored by Dr James Taylor, has been awarded the Ralph Gomory Prize for 2013. The prize, awarded annually by the ... Read more»New article on the history of financial reporting
07/09/2012
Dr James Taylor (History) has published an article in Historical Research exploring the origins of financial reporting in Britain.'Watchdogs or Apologists? Financial Journalism and Company Fraud in ... Read more»New book on the history of corporate governance
20/03/2012
Dr James Taylor (History) has co-authored a book on the origins of corporate governance in the UK. Shareholder Democracies? Corporate Governance in Britain and Ireland before 1850, published by Unive ... Read more»Dr James Taylor consulted by The Observer newspaper
10/03/2009
In her article in The Observer on 8 March 2009, the columnist Catherine Bennett used Dr James Taylor's article 'Commercial Fraud and Public Men in Victorian Britain', published inHistorical Researc ... Read more»Dr James Taylor to be awarded prize for Best First Monograph
05/12/2008
The Department of History is pleased to announce that, at the next Annual Conference of the Economic History Society, Dr James Taylor will be awarded a prize of £1000.00 as author of the best fir ... Read more»British Academy Small Grants Scheme awarded
11/12/2007
Dr Deborah Sutton and Dr James Taylor were both successful in the British Academy Small Grants Scheme for 2007. Deborah was awarded £2,805 for her research on 'Colonial Antiquity in British India ... Read more»
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