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David Kynaston was born in Aldershot in 1951. After graduating from New College Oxford, he studied at the London School of Economics. A professional historian, in addition to the four-volume The City of London, his works include King Labour- A History of the British Working Class, 1850-1914, histories of the Financial Times and the stockbrokers Cazenove & co., and the first two volumes in a planned history of Britain between 1945 and 1979, Austerity Britain, 1945-51 and Family Britain, 1951-57.
It's rare to be able to say that a historical book is positively life-enhancing but David Kynaston, in his vivacious yet measured book, has proved that he is a rare kind of writer * Times Literary Supplement * Charlotte Bronte once wrote: At the West End you may be amused, but in the City you are deeply excited. A better blurb for this book is hard to imagine... Wonderfully vivid * Mail on Sunday * It would be difficult to conceive a more lucid or entertaining study of a subject both immensely complex and of the greatest historical importance * Daily Telegraph * An absorbing read, full of good quotations and riveting anecdote... A significant piece of scholarship * English Historical Review * Exceptionally readable...a colourful narrative full of well-judged extracts from contemporary material * Financial Times *
