Lucy Newton

Lucy Newton is Professor in Business History at Henley Business School. Her research interests include UK retail bank history, a history of UK corporate governance and the history manufacture and marketing of pianos, all in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her work on corporate governance has examined share ownership and patterns of female investing in the nineteenth century. In terms of methodology, Lucy is currently particularly interested in the use of objects and artefacts in banking history, such as art, portraiture, architecture, bank notes, war memorials and uniforms.