page_title: David Kynaston
section_title: Tales of a New Jerusalem
hierarchical_section_title: David Kynaston / Career and research / Tales of a New Jerusalem
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: David Kynaston King Labour 1976 Title
context_page_description: David Thomas Anthony Kynaston is an English historian specialising in the social history of England.
context_section_description: In 2007 Kynaston published Austerity Britain, 1945–1951 to much acclaim. The title consists of two books that together make the first volume in a projected series of six entitled Tales of a New Jerusalem. In this series Kynaston intends to chronicle the history of Great Britain from the end of World War II to the ascension of Margaret Thatcher in 1979. Austerity Britain was named "Book of the Decade" by The Sunday Times.
  Family Britain (2010) is the second volume in the series, and was also released as two books. It covers the period from 1951 to the Suez crisis of 1956. The volume was serialised on BBC Radio 4 as its Book of the Week for 23 November 2009, read by Dominic West. The third volume, Modernity Britain, covering the years 1957–59, was published in June 2013.
caption: David Kynaston King Labour 1976 Title
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