Description:The document above is the November 1844 edition of the monthly journal ‘The Savings Bank Circular’. The journal reported news relating to savings banks during their development and proliferation in the nineteenth century.
The ‘Savings Bank Circular’ tells us that the success of the circular ‘is a decided proof that the affairs of Savings Banks have now become a National question’. The journal reports news about the ‘New Savings Bank Act’, and details about the financial economy of savings banks. Articles concerning the political importance of the savings banks and improved methods of keeping savings bank accounts also feature.