Burnett, John
BURNETT, John
BURNETT, John. British, b. 1925. Genres: Economics, Food and Wine, History, Autobiography/Memoirs, Bibliography. Career: Professor of Social History, Brunel University, 1972- (now emeritus), head, Dept of General Studies, 1962-66, reader, social and economic history, 1966-72; lecturer, social history, London University, 1952-72; head, Division of Liberal Studies, Borough Polytechnic (now University of the South Bank), 1959-62; chair, Social History Society of the UK, 1985-90. Publications: Plenty and Want: A Social History of Diet in England from 1815 to the Present Day, 1966, 1989; A History of Cost of Living, 1969, 1993; The Challenge of the 19th Century, 1970; Housing: A Social History 1815-1985, 1987; Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies of Childhood, 1982, 1994; Idle Hands, The Experience of Unemployment, 1790-1990, 1994; Liquid Pleasures: A Social History of Drinks in Modern Britain, 1999. EDITOR: Useful Toil: Autobiographies of Working People from the 1820s to the 1920s, 1974, 1994; (co-) The Autobiography of the Working Class: A Critical Annotated Bibliography, vol. I, 1984, vol. II, 1987, vol III, 1989. Address: Castle Dene, 11 Burgess Wood Rd, Beaconsfield, Bucks. HP9 1EQ, England.