The Royal Mint is introducing a new pound coin to combat counterfeiters (story here). The pound has a long and fascinating history and it is probably the oldest living currency in the world. You can read a short biography of the pound here. Over its 1200-year history, the pound has lost a considerable amount of its value. However, a substantial proportion of this inflation has occurred since 1970.
Michael Aldous and I had our book The CEO: The Rise and Fall of Britain's Captains of Industry published a few weeks ago. You can find out more about it and buy it at Cambridge University Press's website . It is also available at Amazon , Waterstones , and Barnes & Noble . The CEO has already been reviewed in The Sunday Times , The Observer and Financial Times .