Donald Cuthbert Coleman (21 January 1920 – 3 September 1995) was a British economic historian. After attending The Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, an independent school in Elstree in Hertfordshire, Coleman served in the

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in Africa, Italy and Greece during

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, reaching the rank of major. He gained his first degree and PhD at the

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and was appointed to a post there of Lecturer in Industrial History in 1951. He stayed at LSE as Reader and (1969–1971) Professor of Economic History, and then moved to the

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as Professor of Economic History and Fellow of Pembroke College in 1971, taking early retirement in 1981 to concentrate on his scholarly work. He was editor of the '' Economic History Review'' 1967–72. The annual Coleman Prize of the Association of Business Historians is named in his memory.

Selected publications

* ''The British paper industry, 1495–1860 : a study in industrial growth'' (1958, Clarendon) * ''Sir John Banks, Baronet and Businessman: a Study of Business, Politics and Society in Later Stuart England'' (1963, Clarendon) (on Sir John Banks, 1st Baronet) * ''Courtaulds: an economic and social history'' (on Courtaulds) ** Vol 1: ''The nineteenth century: silk and crape'' (1969, Clarendon) ** Vol 2: ''Rayon'' (1969, Clarendon) ** Vol 3: ''Crisis and change, 1940–1965'' (1980, Clarendon, ) * ''The Economy of England, 1450–1750'' (1977, Oxford UP, )

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1920 births 1995 deaths British economic historians People educated at Haberdashers' Boys' School Royal Artillery officers Alumni of the London School of Economics Academics of the London School of Economics Fellows of Pembroke College, Cambridge Members of the University of Cambridge faculty of history 20th-century British historians Fellows of the British Academy British Army personnel of World War II {{UK-historian-stub