David Kynaston

David Kynaston (pronounced "kin-us-tun") (born 30 July 1951, Aldershot) is an English historian and author of many books on English social history. He has published articles in the New Statesman and other magazines and journals.

Kynaston was educated at Wellington College and New College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1973, and was awarded a PhD at the London School of Economics.^[1] He became a Visiting Professor at Kingston University in 2001.

In 2007 he published Austerity Britain, 1945–1951 to much acclaim^[2], being the first volume of six books in a series Tales of a New Jerusalem, in which he intends to chronicle the history of Great Britain from 1945 to Margaret Thatcher becoming Prime Minister in 1979.^[3]

Austerity Britain was named book of the decade by The Sunday Times.^[4] The second volume, Family Britain, was serialized on BBC Radio 4 as its Book of the Week from 23 November 2009, read by Dominic West.^[5] The concluding 'Afterword' of Family Britain indicates that the next volume may be entitled Modernity Britain.

Bibliography

• King Labour: British Working Class, 1850–1914, 1976;
• The Financial times: a centenary history, 1988;
• Cazenove & Co.: a history, 1991;
• The Bank of England : money, power, and influence 1694–1994, 1995 (edited by Richard Roberts);
• The City of London: A World of Its Own, 1815–90 Vol 1, 1995;
• The City of London: Golden Years, 1890–1914 v. 2, 1995;
• The City of London: Illusions of Gold, 1914–45 v. 3, 2000;
• The City of London: Club No More, 1945–2000 v. 4, 2002 (with Will Sulkin);
• Austerity Britain, 1945–1951, Bloomsbury, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7475-5985-4. Published also in two separate volumes:
  • A World to Build, 1945–1948, Bloomsbury, 2007, ISBN 978-0-7475-8540-4.
  • Smoke in the Valley, 1948–1951, Bloomsbury, 2008, ISBN 978-0-7475-9228-0.
• Family Britain, 1951–1957, Bloomsbury, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7475-8385-1
• City of London: The History

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