Professor Martin Daunton FBA

History
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1997
Subjects
History

Summary

Martin Daunton retired as Professor of Economic History and Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Cambridge in October 2015. His most recent publication is a book on the economic governance of the world since 1933. His current project is a book on intergenerational equity, as well as continuing to work on the political economy of public finance and British economic development since the eighteenth century.

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Emeritus Professor of Economic History

2015 -

University of Cambridge Professor of Economic History, University of Cambridge

1997 - 2015

University College London Lecturer in Economic History, Reader, Professor of Modern History, Astor Professor of British History

1979 - 1997

University of Durham Lecturer in Economic History

1973 - 1979

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