Further reading

Selected secondary sources for the history of the London banking house

A former Company Secretary of NMR, Ronald Palin, published in 1970 an account of his years with the Bank. (Palin, Ronald: Rothschild Relish (Cassell 1970)). His reminiscences of his career from 1925, and the anecdotes of earlier years gathered from older colleagues, form a second useful source in explaining the interrelation of the Bank's departments at the time of the compilation of the Old Catalogue. In fact, it is clear that most of the departments were mere divisions of the General Office.    

Useful secondary sources for the history of the London banking house are listed below; these are available in the Reading Room of The Rothschild Archive:

I. The Rise of the House of Rothschild, Count E.C. Corti (Leipzig, 1927); reprinted, translated from the original German by Brian and Beatrix Lunn, (Victor Gollancz, London, 1928), reprinted (Gordon Press, New York, 1974)

II. The Reign of the House of Rothschild, Count E.C. Corti (Leipzig, 1927); reprinted, translated from the original German by Brian and Beatrix Lunn, (Victor Gollancz, London, 1928), reprinted (Gordon Press, New York, 1974)

Rothschild Relish, Ronald Palin (London: Cassell, 1970) 000/2716)

Rothschild: a story of wealth and power, Derek Wilson (London: Andre Deutsch, 1988) 

The World's Banker: the history of the house of Rothschild, Niall Ferguson (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1998) (000/2760)

The Life and Times of N M Rothschild, 1777-1836, Victor Gray and Melanie Aspey (eds.) (London: The Rothschild Archive, 1998) (000/1408/2)