Donald Read

Donald Read (1930 – 1 October 2018) was a British historian.[1] He was an emeritus Professor of Modern History at the University of Kent and was appointed to write the authorised history of Reuters.[2] Read died in 2018, aged 88.[3]

Works

  • Peterloo: The Massacre and its Background (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1958).
  • Press and People 1790–1850: Opinion in Three English Cities (1961).
  • The English Provinces, 1760-1960, a Study in Influence (1964).
  • Cobden and Bright (1967).
  • Edwardian England 1901-15 (1972).
  • A History of England in eleven volumes (1979).
  • Peel and the Victorians (1987).
  • The Power of News: The History of Reuters (1992, 2nd ed. 1999).
  • A Manchester Boyhood in the Thirties and Forties: Growing up in War and Peace (Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2003).

Notes

  1. ↑ C. J. Wrigley, A.J.P.Taylor: Radical Historian of Europe (London: I.B. Tauris, 2006), p. 393.
  2. ↑ Michael Davie, '‘No, no,’ replied the fat man', The London Review of Books, Vol. 14 No. 23 (3 December 1992), pp. 24-25.
  3. ↑ Obituary: Donald Read
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