Donald Read

Education

• Manchester, Green End, elementary schools ; William Hulme's Grammar School, Manchester ; University College, Oxford.

Career

• Research Studentship in Arts, University College, Hull ; Knoop Research Fellowship in Economic History, University of Sheffield ; assistant lecturer, lecturer in modern history, University of Leeds ; senior lecturer, reader, Professor of Modern English History, University of Kent ; Emeritus Professor.
• National President of the Historical Association ; company historian at Reuters, London.

Books

• Peterloo: The Massacre and its Background.
• Press and People 1790–1850: Opinion in Three English Cities.Feargus O'Connor: Irishman and Chartist.
• The English Provinces, 1760-1960: A Study in Influence.
• Cobden and Bright: A Victorian Political Partnership.
• Edwardian England 1901-15: Society and Politics.Documents from Edwardian England, 1901-1915.
• England 1868-1914.Edwardian England.
• Peel and the Victorians.
• The Power of News: The History of Reuters.
• A Manchester Boyhood in the Thirties and Forties: Growing up in War and Peace.
• All You Need is Love: A Campus Tale.
• Clever By Half: Learning and Loving in a Fifties University.
• Never Trust Professors: Life and Death on Campus.

Articles

• "The Social and Economic Background to Peterloo", pp. 1–18.
• "Manchester News-Letter: A Discovery at Oxford" .
• "Lancashire's Hampden Clubs: A Spy's Narrative" .
• "John Harland: The Father of Provincial Reporting" .
• "North of England Newspapers and their Value to Historians".
• "Robert Owen, 1771-1858: From Manchester to Utopia" .
• "Reform Newspapers and Northern Opinion, c.1800-c.1848".
• "Feargus O'Connor: Irishman and Chartist".
• "The Use of Local History: The Local History of Modern Times".
• "Travelling the North".
• "Introduction" to the Third Edition of Archibald Prentice, Historical Sketches and Personal Recollections of Manchester
• "The New Cities".
• "History: Political and Diplomatic".
• "Edwardian England".
• "Bright, John".
• "Introduction: Crisis Age or Golden Age" 'in D. Read, Edwardian England.
• "President's Page".
• "Sir Roderick Jones and Reuters: Rise and Fall of a News Emperor".
• "War News from Reuters: Victorian and Edwardian Reporting".
• "Reuters: News Agency of the British Empire".
• "Truth in News: Reuters and the Manchester Guardian, 1858-1964".
• "Reuters and South Africa: South Africa is a country of monopolies".
• "Sir Christopher Chancellor".
• "The Local History Committee: A Very Personal Retrospect".
• "The Impact of Electric News 1846-1914: The Role of Reuters".
• "Obituary, Gerald Long, 1923-1998".
• "The Relationship of Reuters and other News Agencies with the British Press, 1858-1984: Service at Cost or Business for Profit?".
• "Don't Blame the Messengers: News Agencies Past and Present".
• "A Parade of Past Presidents 1906–1982".
• "New Universities of the Sixties, One Professor’s Recollections: Glad Confident Morning and After".
• "Obituary, Asa Briggs, 1921-2016".