Donald Read
Donald Read (31 July 1930 – 1 October 2018) was a British historian.[1] He was emeritus Professor of Modern English History at the University of Kent and in 1988 was appointed to write the authorised history of Reuters.[2] Read died in 2018, aged 88, in Blackpool.[3]
Donald Read | |
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Born | 31 July 1930 |
Died | 1 October 2018 Blackpool, England |
Nationality | British |
Occupation | Historian |
Education
- Manchester, Green End, elementary schools (1934–41); William Hulme's Grammar School, Manchester (1941–9); University College, Oxford (1949–55).
Career
- Research Studentship in Arts, University College, Hull (1954–5); Knoop Research Fellowship in Economic History, University of Sheffield (1955–6); Assistant Lecturer (1956), Lecturer (1958) in Modern History, University of Leeds (1956–65); Senior Lecturer (1965), Reader (1969), Professor of Modern English History (1974), University of Kent (1965–90); Emeritus Professor (1990–2018).
- National President of the Historical Association (1985–8); Company Historian at Reuters, London (1988–2001).
Books
- Peterloo: The Massacre and its Background (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1958, 1973).
- Press and People 1790–1850: Opinion in Three English Cities (London: Arnold, 1961, 1993).
- [with E.H.L. Glasgow] Feargus O'Connor: Irishman and Chartist (London: Arnold, 1961).
- The English Provinces, 1760-1960: A Study in Influence (London: Arnold, 1964).
- Cobden and Bright: A Victorian Political Partnership (London: Arnold, 1967).
- Edwardian England 1901-15: Society and Politics (London: Harrap, 1972).
- [ed.] Documents from Edwardian England, 1901-1915 (London: Harrap, 1973).
- England 1868-1914 (London: Longman, 1979, revised 1994 as The Age of Urban Democracy).
- [ed.] Edwardian England (London: Croom Helm, with the Historical Association, 1982).
- Peel and the Victorians (Oxford: Blackwell, 1987).
- The Power of News: The History of Reuters (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992, 2nd ed. 1999).
- A Manchester Boyhood in the Thirties and Forties: Growing up in War and Peace (Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2003).
- All You Need is Love: A Campus Tale (Sussex: Book Guild, 2010).
- Clever By Half: Learning and Loving in a Fifties University (Sussex: Book Guild, 2012).
- Never Trust Professors: Life and Death on Campus (Sussex: Book Guild, 2016).
Articles
- This list excludes numerous book reviews, which appeared especially in Northern History from its start in 1965
- The Social and Economic Background to Peterloo (trans. Lancs. & Ches. Antiq. Soc., LXIV (1954), pp.1–18 (1954).
- Manchester News-Letter: A Discovery at Oxford (Manchester Review, vol.8 (1957), pp.1–-5) (reprinted from Manchester Guardian, 31 Aug. 1956).
- Lancashire's Hampden Clubs: A Spy's Narrative (Manchester Review, vol.8 (1957), pp. 83–7) (revised from Manchester Guardian, 2 Oct. 1956).
- John Harland: The Father of Provincial Reporting (Manchester Review, vol.8 (1958), pp. 205–12) (revised from Manchester Guardian, 4 Sept. 1957).
- North of England Newspapers and their Value to Historians (Proc. Leeds Phil. & Lit. Soc., VIII (1957), pp. 200–15).
- Robert Owen, 1771-1858: From Manchester to Utopia (Manchester Review, vol.8 (1959), pp. 317–20) (reprinted from Manchester Guardian, 17 Nov. 1958).
- Reform Newspapers and Northern Opinion, c.1800-c.1848 (Proc.Leeds Phil. & Lit. Soc., VIII (1959), pp. 301–14).
- Feargus O'Connor: Irishman and Chartist (History Today, XI (1961), pp. 165–74).
- The Use of Local History: The Local History of Modern Times (Amateur Historian, vol.6, no.4 (1964), pp. 121–24).
- Travelling the North (Northern History, III (1968), pp. 219–22).
- Introduction to the Third Edition of Archibald Prentice, Historical Sketches and Personal Recollections of Manchester (Cass, 1970) (pp.v-xvii)
- The New Cities (in History of the English Speaking Peoples (Purnell, 1971), pp. 3388–95).
- History: Political and Diplomatic (in C.B. Cox & A.E. Dyson [eds.] The Twentieth Century Mind, I: 1900-1918 (OUP, 1972), pp. 1–50).
- Edwardian England (Historical Association Pamphlet G79 (1972) 56pp.).
- Bright, John (in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th ed. (1974), vol.2, pp. 517–18).
- Introduction: Crisis Age or Golden Age (in D. Read [ed.], Edwardian England (Croom Helm, 1982), pp.14–39).
- President's Page (in The Historian [Historical Association], nos.6–17 (1985–88)).
- Sir Roderick Jones and Reuters: Rise and Fall of a News Emperor (in D. Fraser [ed.], Cities, Class and Communications, Essays in Honour of Asa Briggs (Harvester, 1990), pp.175-99).
- War News from Reuters: Victorian and Edwardian Reporting (Despatches, vol.4 (1993), pp. 72–85).
- Reuters: News Agency of the British Empire (Contemporary Record, vol.8 (1994), pp. 195–212).
- Truth in News: Reuters and the Manchester Guardian, 1858-1964 (Northern History, vol.31 (1995), pp. 281–97).
- Reuters and South Africa: South Africa is a country of monopolies (South African Journal of Economic History, vol.11 (1996), pp. 104–43).
- Sir Christopher Chancellor (Dictionary of National Biography, 1986-1990 (OUP, 1996), pp.65-6).
- The Local History Committee: A Very Personal Retrospect (The Historian [Historical Association], no.54 (1997), pp. 16–17).
- The Impact of Electric News 1846-1914: The Role of Reuters (in F.A.J.L. James [ed.], Semaphores to Short Waves (RSA, 1998), pp. 121–35).
- Obituary, Gerald Long, 1923-1998 (The Independent, 14 Nov 1998).
- The Relationship of Reuters and other News Agencies with the British Press, 1858-1984: Service at Cost or Business for Profit? (in P. Caterall et al. [eds.], Northcliffe's Legacy, Aspects of the British Popular Press, 1896-1996 (Macmillan, 2000), pp. 149–68).
- Don't Blame the Messengers: News Agencies Past and Present (The Historian [Historical Association], no.69 (Spring 2001), pp. 9–15).
- A Parade of Past Presidents 1906–1982 (The Historian [Historical Association], no.91 (Autumn 2006), pp. 10–23).
- New Universities of the Sixties, One Professor’s Recollections: Glad Confident Morning and After (The Historian [Historical Association], no.114 (Summer 2012), pp. 28–31).
- Obituary, Asa Briggs, 1921-2016 (The Historian [Historical Association], No.129 (Spring 2016), p. 37).
Notes
- C. J. Wrigley, A.J.P.Taylor: Radical Historian of Europe (London: I.B. Tauris, 2006), p. 393.
- Michael Davie, '‘No, no,’ replied the fat man', The London Review of Books, Vol. 14 No. 23 (3 December 1992), pp. 24–25.
- "Obituary: Donald Read". The Baron. 8 October 2018.
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