Digitising Exchange Banks:

This site presents a single case from a major study of British exchange banks from the mid-nineteenth-century to the outbreak of the First World War. The use of GIS techniques to support a spatial and temporal analysis of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China has added a new dimension to established economic analysis of the history of these banking institutions.

Case study 1: The Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China, 1853-1912

• Appendix 1: Specifying place
• Appendix 2: Geographical location
• Appendix 3: Digitising the space
• Appendix 4: CBIAC balance sheets