Education
Kynaston was educated at Wellington College and New College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1973, and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics.
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The 'Square Mile', London's financial powerhouse, rose to prominence with the defeat of Napoleon in 1815. David Kynaston's vibrant history brings this world to life, taking us from the railway boom of the 1830s to the 'Golden Age', when the legendary gold standard reigned supreme. Between the two World Wars the City was affected by the Wall Street Crash, pressured by politicians, trade unions and industrialists, but by the end of the twentieth century it had regained a precarious global might. Woven throughout are the stories of four individuals who shaped the City in different ways -- Nathan Rothschild, Ernest Cassel, Montagu Norman and Siegmund Warburg. But the realm of great bankers and brokers is also the workplace of young clerks throwing paper darts, typists bringing in their sandwiches, and sad racketeers watching aghast as the markets fall. Above all, we see what it was like to work in the City -- the dress codes, eating habits, work hours, pay, humour, changing architecture and language that forged the unique culture of the Square Mile. Richly entertaining, full of vivid anecdotes, this is a story of booms, busts and bankruptcies -- from the Kaffir boom to the Marconi scandal, the 'Big Bang' deregulation of 1986, and the Barings crash in 1995 -- bringing us to the brink of the modern age.
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Kynaston was educated at Wellington College and New College, Oxford, from which he graduated in 1973, and was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy at the London School of Economics.
He became a Visiting Professor at Kingston University in 2001. Tales of a New Jerusalem In 2007 Kynaston published Austerity Britain, 1945–1951 to much acclaim. 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 World War II to the ascension of Margaret Thatcher in 1979.
Austerity Britain was named "Book of the Decade" by The Sunday Times. Family Britain (2010) is the second volume in the series, and was also released as two books
lieutenant covers the period from 1951 to the Suez crisis of 1956. The volume was serialized on British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 as its Book of the Week for 23 November 2009, read by Dominic West.
The third volume, Modernity Britain, covering the years 1957-1959, was published in June 2013.
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