Professor Martin Daunton FBA

History

Elected 1997

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 1997
Sections: Modern History from 1850
Website: http://www.martindaunton.co.uk

Martin Daunton retired as Professor of Economic History and Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Cambridge in October 2015. His most recent publication is a book on the economic governance of the world since 1933. His current project is a book on intergenerational equity, as well as continuing to work on the political economy of public finance and British economic development since the eighteenth century.

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge

Publications

The Economic Government of the World

Published in 2023

State and Market in Victorian Britain: War, Welfare and Capitalism

Published in 2008

Just Taxes: The Politics of Taxation in Britain, 1914-1979

Published in 2007

Wealth and Welfare: An economic and social history of britain, 1851-1951 2007

Published in 2007

Trusting Leviathan: the politics of taxation in Britain, 1799-1914

Published in 2007

Progress and poverty: an economic and social history of Britain 1850-1914

Published in 1995

House and home in the Victorian city: working class housing 1850-1914

Published in 1983

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Emeritus Professor of Economic History

2015 -

University of Cambridge Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge

1997 - 2015

University College London Lecturer in Economic History, Reader, Professor of Modern History, Astor Professor of British History

1979 - 1997

University of Durham Lecturer in Economic History

1973 - 1979

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Professor Martin Daunton FBA

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge