Jacob Ward
Biographic Data
| ID | 3945776 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacob Ward |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacob |
| FAMILY NAME | Ward |
| SIGNATURE | WARD J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7118-8368 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cyber and the City
Reviewed by: Cyber and the City: Securing London's Banks in the Computer Age by Ashley Sweetman Jacob Ward (bio) Cyber and the City: Securing London's Banks in the Computer Age By Ashley Sweetman. Cham: Springer, 2022. Pp. vii + 230. Ashley Sweetman's Cyber and the City is valuable reading for any historian researching the intersections of finance and digital technology. The book investigates computer security in London's clearing banks from the …
Loop
Computer Models and Thatcherist Futures
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's 1984 privatization of British Telecom was a landmark moment for neoliberalism. It served to popularize and vindicate the sale of state utilities around the world. This article shows how computer models of the future were central for British telecommunications', and thus for Britain's, transition from social democracy to neoliberalism, from monopoly to market. The British telecommunications network was a key inte…
TCBH Duncan Tanner Essay Prize Winner 2018 Financing the Information Age
This article is a history of the privatization of British Telecom. BT's privatization occupies a central position in histories of Thatcherism as a pivotal moment in Thatcherism's ideological focus on popular capitalism. These histories, however, overlook the important intersection of financial institutions and information technology policy in shaping BT's privatization. Financial institutions in the City of London formed a lobbying group, the Cit…
Histories of Technology, the Environment, and Modern Britain
Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a uniquely wide-lens view of how technology and the environment have been intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain over the last 300 years. It combines, for the first time, two perspectives with much to say about Britain since the industrial revolution: the history of technology and environmental history. Technolog…
TCBH Duncan Tanner Essay Prize Winner 2018 Financing the Information Age
This article is a history of the privatization of British Telecom. BT's privatization occupies a central position in histories of Thatcherism as a pivotal moment in Thatcherism's ideological focus on popular capitalism. These histories, however, overlook the important intersection of financial institutions and information technology policy in shaping BT's privatization. Financial institutions in the City of London formed a lobbying group, the Cit…
Histories of Technology, the Environment, and Modern Britain
Histories of Technology, the Environment and Modern Britain brings together historians with a wide range of interests to take a uniquely wide-lens view of how technology and the environment have been intimately and irreversibly entangled in Britain over the last 300 years. It combines, for the first time, two perspectives with much to say about Britain since the industrial revolution: the history of technology and environmental history. Technolog…
TCBH Duncan Tanner Essay Prize Winner 2018 Financing the Information Age
This article is a history of the privatization of British Telecom. BT's privatization occupies a central position in histories of Thatcherism as a pivotal moment in Thatcherism's ideological focus on popular capitalism. These histories, however, overlook the important intersection of financial institutions and information technology policy in shaping BT's privatization. Financial institutions in the City of London formed a lobbying group, the Cit…
Computer Models and Thatcherist Futures
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's 1984 privatization of British Telecom was a landmark moment for neoliberalism. It served to popularize and vindicate the sale of state utilities around the world. This article shows how computer models of the future were central for British telecommunications', and thus for Britain's, transition from social democracy to neoliberalism, from monopoly to market. The British telecommunications network was a key inte…
Loop
Cyber and the City
Reviewed by: Cyber and the City: Securing London's Banks in the Computer Age by Ashley Sweetman Jacob Ward (bio) Cyber and the City: Securing London's Banks in the Computer Age By Ashley Sweetman. Cham: Springer, 2022. Pp. vii + 230. Ashley Sweetman's Cyber and the City is valuable reading for any historian researching the intersections of finance and digital technology. The book investigates computer security in London's clearing banks from the …
Political science (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Finance (2 works) · Finance (2 works) · History (2 works) · Market economy (2 works)