History of Financial Advice Collection. Charles Duguid, a member of the newly formed Institute of Journalists, was a key figure in the “new financial journalism” of the late nineteenth century, which sought to enliven the press’s coverage of the markets. Having built a profile first at the Pall Mall Gazette, then at the Westminster Gazette, he was approached to write a history for the Stock Exchange Souvenir, a limited circulation commemorative volume, from which this book was adapted. Arranged chronologically, the chapters give a detailed and well-researched history of the securities market from the late seventeenth century to the start of the twentieth. More rigorous and analytical than John Francis’s history, now over fifty years old, it nevertheless sought to make the story of the rise of the Stock Exchange readable and accessible to general readers. Though not ignoring scandalous episodes, it presents a celebratory view of the Stock Exchange (“the mart of the world, the nerve-centre of the politics and finances of its nations”), and also seeks to humanize what was still a remote institution, barred to the general public and the object of much suspicion.