Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Bank of England is the central bank of the United Kingdom. It was established in 1694 and is the second oldest central bank in the world after the Sveriges Riksbank Bank of Sweden which was established in 1668. The Bank of England was created to act as the English Government's banker, and to this day it still acts as the banker for Her Majesty's (HM) Government. The Bank was privately owned and operated until it became a subordinate policy maker of the Treasury after 1931 and was nationalised in 1946...