Martin Daunton

Martin Daunton
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Martin Daunton FRHistS FBA
Born	7 February 1949 (age 75); Cardiff, Wales
Nationality	British
Spouse	Claire Gobbi (m. 1984)
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Nottingham; University of Kent; University of Cambridge;
Academic work
Discipline	History
Sub-discipline	Economic history
Institutions	University of Durham; University College London; Trinity Hall, Cambridge;

Martin James Daunton (born 14 February 1949) is a British academic and historian. He was Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge, between 2004 and 2014.^[1]^[2]

Daunton is the son of Ronald James Daunton and Dorothy née Bellett. He was educated at Barry Grammar School before going to the University of Nottingham where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970. He studied further at the University of Kent (PhD, 1974) and received the degree of LittD from the University of Cambridge in 2005.

In 1984, he married Claire Gobbi.

Daunton is a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.^[3]

Select bibliography

Daunton, Martin J., ed. Coal Metropolis: Cardiff 1870–1914 (Leicester University, 1977).
Daunton, Martin J. House and home in the Victorian city: working class housing, 1850–1914 (London: Edward Arnold, 1983).
Daunton, Martin J. "'Gentlemanly Capitalism' and British Industry 1820–1914." Past & Present 122 (1989): 119–158. in JSTOR
Daunton, Martin J. Progress and Poverty: an economic and social history of Britain 1700–1850. (Oxford UP, 1995).
Daunton, Martin, and Matthew Hilton, eds. The Politics of Consumption: Material culture and citizenship in Europe and America. (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2001).
Narlikar, Amrita, Martin Daunton, and Robert M. Stern, eds. The Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization (Oxford University Press, 2012).
Moses, Julia, and Martin J. Daunton. "Editorial – Border Crossings: global dynamics of social policies and problems." Journal of Global History 9#2 (2014): 177–188.
Daunton, Martin J. Royal Mail: the Post Office since 1840. (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015).
Daunton, Martin J. Housing the Workers, 1850–1914: a comparative perspective (Bloomsbury Publishing, 2015).
Daunton, Martin J. The Economic Government of the World: 1933-2023 (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023)

^ "Interview with Professor Martin Daunton - Making History". History.ac.uk. 19 May 2008. Retrieved 2 November 2012.
^ Daunton, Martin. "Master Martin Daunton". Trinity Hall. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
^ Wales, The Learned Society of. "Martin Daunton". The Learned Society of Wales. Retrieved 29 August 2023.

Academic offices
Preceded by Peter Clarke	Master of Trinity Hall, Cambridge 2004–2014	Succeeded by Jeremy Morris
Preceded by Janet Nelson	President of the Royal Historical Society 2005–2008	Succeeded by Colin Jones

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