Martin James Daunton (born 14 February 1949) is a British

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and

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. He was Master of

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, between 2004 and 2014. Daunton is the son of Ronald James Daunton and Dorothy ''née'' Bellett. He was educated at Barry Grammar School before going to the

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where he graduated with a

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degree in 1970. He studied further at the

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(

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, 1974) and received the degree of LittD from the

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in 2005. In 1984, he married Claire Gobbi. Daunton is a Founding Fellow of the Learned Society of Wales.

Select bibliography

* Daunton, Martin J., ''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)

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1949 births Living people Writers from Cardiff People educated at Barry Comprehensive School Alumni of the University of Nottingham Alumni of the University of Kent Fellows of the British Academy Fellows of the Royal Historical Society Presidents of the Royal Historical Society 20th-century Welsh historians Masters of Trinity Hall, Cambridge British male writers Members of the University of Cambridge faculty of history British male non-fiction writers 21st-century Welsh historians {{UK-historian-stub Fellows of the Learned Society of Wales Academics of Durham University