David Thomas Anthony Kynaston (/ˈkɪnəstən/; born 30 July 1951[1] in Aldershot) is an English historian specialising in the social history of England.[2]
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Born | David Thomas Anthony Kynaston 30 July 1951[1] |
Academic background | |
Education | Wellington College |
Alma mater | University of Oxford (BA) London School of Economics (PhD) |
Thesis | The London Stock Exchange, 1870-1914 : an institutional history (1983) |
Academic work | |
Discipline | History |
Sub-discipline | English society |
Institutions | Kingston University |
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]
Kynaston became a Visiting Professor at Kingston University in 2001.[1]
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.
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