Professor John Singleton

John Singleton is Emeritus Professor of Economic and Business History at Sheffield Hallam University, UK. His research interests encompass the history of central banking, economic and financial relations within the British Commonwealth, business history, and the history of disasters and industrial safety, especially in coal mining. He taught for a number of years at Sheffield Hallam University, and before that at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he has degrees in economics, economic history and divinity from the University of Lancaster, the London School of Economics, and the University of Edinburgh respectively. 

Among his most relevant publications are Central Banking in the Twentieth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2011) and, as principal author, a commissioned history of the New Zealand central bank, Innovation and Independence: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand 1973-2002 (Auckland University Press, 2006), covering the period when the RBNZ pioneered inflation targeting and a new form of central bank independence. With Nicole Robertson and Avram Taylor he recently co-edited the third edition of 20th Century Britain: Economic, Cultural and Social Change (Routledge, 2023), a text commissioned by the Economic History Society.