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English historian and author
David Thomas Anthony Kynaston (; born 30 July 1951
[1] in
Aldershot ) is an English historian specialising in the
social history of England .
[2]
Early life and education
Kynaston was educated at
Wellington College, Berkshire and
New College, Oxford , from which he graduated with a
Bachelor of Arts degree in
modern history in 1973,
[1] and was awarded a
PhD from the
London School of Economics on the history of the
London Stock Exchange in 1983.
[3]
[4]
Career and research
Kynaston became a Visiting Professor at
Kingston University in 2001.
[1]
Tales of a New Jerusalem
David Kynaston King Labour 1976 Title
In 2007 Kynaston published Austerity Britain, 1945–1951 to much acclaim.
[5] The title consists of two books that together make the first volume in a projected series of six entitled Tales of a New Jerusalem . In this series Kynaston intends to chronicle the history of Great Britain from the
end of World War II to the ascension of
Margaret Thatcher in 1979.
[6] Austerity Britain was named "Book of the Decade" by The Sunday Times .
[7]
Family Britain (2010) is the second volume in the series, and was also released as two books.
[8] It covers the period from 1951 to the
Suez crisis of 1956.
[8] The volume was serialised on
BBC Radio 4 as its
Book of the Week for 23 November 2009, read by
Dominic West .
[9]
The third volume, Modernity Britain , covering the years 1957–62, was published as two books in June 2013
[10]
[11] and 2014.
The first book of the fourth volume, A Northern Wind , covering the years 1962-65, was published in September 2023.
Publications
King Labour: British Working Class, 1850–1914 , 1976[
ISBN missing ]
Bobby Abel : Professional Batsman, 1857–1936 , 1982[
ISBN missing ]
Archie's Last Stand: M.C.C. in New Zealand 1922-23: Being an Account of Mr.
A. C. MacLaren's tour and His Last Stand , 1984
The Financial Times : a centenary history , 1988[
ISBN missing ]
WG 's Birthday Party , 1990[
ISBN missing ]
Cazenove & Co. : a history , 1991[
ISBN missing ]
The Bank of England : Money, Power, and Influence 1694–1994 , 1995 (edited by Richard Roberts)[
ISBN missing ]
The City of London, Volume I: A World of Its Own, 1815–90 , 1995[
ISBN missing ]
The City of London, Volume II: Golden Years, 1890–1914 , 1995[
ISBN missing ]
LIFFE: A Market and its Makers , 1997[
ISBN missing ]
The City of London, Volume III: Illusions of Gold, 1914–45 , 1999[
ISBN missing ]
The City of London, Volume IV: Club No More, 1945–2000 , 2002 (with Will Sulkin)[
ISBN missing ]
Austerity Britain, 1945–51 , 2007, reprinted as:[
ISBN missing ]
Austerity Britain: A World to Build, 1945–48 , 2008
Austerity Britain: Smoke in the Valley, 1948–51 , 2008
Family Britain, 1951–57 , 2009
City of London: The History , 2012[
ISBN missing ]
Modernity Britain, 1957–62 , 2014, previously published as:
Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957–59 , 2013
[12]
[13]
Modernity Britain: A Shake of the Dice, 1959–62 , 2014
Till Time's Last Sand: A History of the Bank of England 1694–2013 , 2017
Arlott ,
Swanton and the Soul of English Cricket , 2018 (with
Stephen Fay )
Engines of Privilege: Britain's private school problem , co-authored with Francis Green
[14]
[15]
[16]
[17]
On the Cusp: Days of '62 , 2021
A Northern Wind: Britain 1962-65 , 2023
References
^
a
b
c
d Anon (2017).
"Kynaston, Dr David Thomas Anthony" .
Who's Who (online
Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black.
doi :
10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U281869 . (Subscription or
UK public library membership required.)
^
"Bloomsbury - David Kynaston - David Kynaston" . www.bloomsbury.com .
^ Kynaston, David Thomas Anthony (1983).
The London Stock Exchange, 1870-1914 : an institutional history . london.ac.uk (PhD thesis). London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London).
OCLC
24154737 .
EThOS
uk.bl.ethos.295464 .
^ Random House's
page about City of London 1
Archived 1 October 2011 at the
Wayback Machine specifies Wellington College, New College Oxford, and the LSE, although it does not give years or degrees.
^ Christopher Silvester (30 October 2009).
"Family Britain, 1951–57: David Kynaston" . Express . Retrieved 4 September 2011 .
^ Kynaston, David (2007). Austerity Britain, 1945–1951 . London:
Bloomsbury . p. ix.
ISBN
978-0-7475-9923-4 .
^
"The best of the decade" . The Times . Retrieved 4 September 2011 .
^
a
b
Diski, Jenny (August 2010).
"Fastidious Albion: Postwar Britain keeps calm, carries on" .
Harper's Magazine . Vol. 321, no. 1, 923. pp. 79–82. Retrieved 29 June 2013 . (subscription required)
^ Kynaston, David (23 November 2009).
"Family Britain" . Book of the Week .
BBC . Retrieved 29 June 2013 .
^ DeGroot, Gerard (14 June 2013).
"Modernity Britain by David Kynaston, review" .
The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 29 June 2013 .
^
Bennett, Catherine (22 June 2013).
"Modernity Britain: Opening the Box, 1957-1959 by David Kynaston – review" .
The Guardian . Retrieved 29 June 2013 .
^ Weight, Richard (November 2013).
"Review of Modernity Britain : opening the box, 1957–59 " . Reviews.
History Today . 63 (11): 64–65. Retrieved 22 November 2015 .
^ Mark Damazer,
"Modernity Britain by David Kynaston: Social history with a smile" (review) ,
New Statesman , 27 June 2013.
^
Hillman, Nick (2019).
"Review of 'Engines of Privilege: Britain's Private School Problem' " . hepi.ac.uk . Higher Education Policy Institute.
^ Green, Francis; Kynaston, David (2019). Engines of privilege : Britain's private school problem . London.
ISBN
978-1-5266-0127-8 .
OCLC
1108696740 . {{
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link )
^
Clanchy, Kate (2019).
"Engines of Privilege review – a challenge to Britain's private schools?" . The Guardian .
^ Derham, Patrick (2019).
"Book review – Engines of Privilege: Britain's Private School Problem" . tes.com . Times Educational Supplement.
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