Money through time
Britain's inflation experience in 1975
How rising prices changed what an ordinary pound could buy.
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Stories about the events, research and everyday decisions that shape how we save, spend and plan.
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Retirement and pensions
The pension charge cap's arrival
The story behind a limit on charges in qualifying default pension arrangements.
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The day interest-rate decisions changed hands
The May 1997 change in how UK monetary policy decisions were made.
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Money through time
Making bank switching work
The service designed around moving an account and its everyday payments.
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Protecting your finances
The PPI deadline that reached everyday life
How a financial complaints deadline became a national event.
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Money through time
What happened on Black Monday?
A closer look at the market events behind the falling prices in 1987.
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Money through time
The bank that was not rescued
Overend Gurney's collapse and the Bank of England's decision in 1866.
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Protecting your finances
When workplace injury became a national risk
The change in responsibility behind Britain's industrial injury compensation system.
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Retirement and pensions
The Pension Protection Fund's beginnings
How a pension backstop was built around promises an employer might no longer meet.
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Beveridge's wartime blueprint
The 1942 report that brought life's financial risks into one national conversation.
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Protecting your finances
When the Woodford fund suspended dealing
The episode that exposed the difference between investment value and access to cash.
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The arrival of automatic enrolment
How changing the starting point reshaped participation in workplace pensions.
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