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According to Wikipedia, Michael Walter Flinn was a British economic historian. Born into a middle-class family in Chorlton-on-Medlock, he was educated at William Hulme's Grammar School in Manchester, serving as an officer in the Royal Artillery during the Second World War. After the end of the war, Flinn took a history degree at the University of Manchester before spending two years as a grammar school teacher while writing a postgraduate dissertation in his spare time. In 1959, he began lecturing at the University of Edinburgh, writing an introductory school textbook for history in 1961, which was still in print at his death. He was awarded a D. Litt by Edinburgh in 1965, and two years later was appointed to a Personal Chair in Social History. After his retirement in 1978, he lectured in the United States and continental Europe, serving as president of the Economic History Society from 1980 to 1983, when he died in Stroud, Gloucestershire.

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The Population History of England, 1541–1871 (1982) (286)
Four Generations. Population, Land, and Family in Colonial Andover, Massachusetts. (1972) (116)
The European Demographic System, 1500-1820 (1982) (103)
Scottish population history: from the 17th century to the 1930s (1979) (97)
The condition of the working class (1975) (71)
Trends in Real Wages, 1750–1850 (1974) (70)
The History of the British Coal Industry (1984) (68)
Origins of the Industrial Revolution (1966) (58)
The English Poor Law, 1780-1930 (1971) (55)
Transport and trade (1975) (53)
Report on the Sanitary Conditions of the Labouring Population of Great Britain, by Edwin Chadwick 1842. (1965) (40)
The History Of The British Coal Industry, Volume 2: 1700-1830: The Industrial Revolution (1984) (31)
Essays in Social History. (1977) (28)
Report on the Sanitary Condition of the Labouring Population of Great Britain, by Edwin Chadwick, 1842. (1967) (24)
Medical Services under the New Poor Law (1976) (23)
Timber and the advance of technology: A reconsideration (1959) (22)
BRITISH STEEL AND SPANISH ORE: 1871–1914 (1955) (18)
Social History with and without Numbers@@@L'Homme Devant la Mort@@@Les Champions des Femmes: Examen du Discours sur la Superiorite des Femmes, 1400-1800@@@Scottish Population History: From the Seventeenth Century to the 1930s@@@Peasant Destinies: The History of 552 Swedes Born 1810-12 (1977) (17)
The Poor Employment Act of 1817 (1961) (16)
Men of iron : the Crowleys in the early iron industry (1963) (14)
Health Care As Social History: The Glasgow Case (1982) (14)
Health Care and Popular Medicine in Nineteenth-Century England. (1978) (13)
The European Demographic System, 1500-1820. (1987) (13)
British population growth, 1700-1850 (1971) (12)
XVII. THE GROWTH OF THE ENGLISH IRON INDUSTRY 1660–1760 (1958) (10)
Agricultural Productivity and Economic Growth in England, 1700–1760: A Comment (1966) (10)
Plague in Europe and the Mediterranean countries. (1979) (10)
The law book of the Crowley Ironworks (1957) (9)
The History of the British Coal Industry. Vol. 2: 1700-1830: The Industrial Revolution (1985) (9)
A dynamic economy (1975) (8)
1700-1830 : the Industrial Revolution (1984) (7)
Men of Iron: The Crowleys in the Early Iron Industry (1964) (7)
Economic Thought and Policy (1950) (7)
The Travel Diaries of Swedish Engineers of the Eighteenth Century as Sources of Technological History (1957) (6)
An economic and social history of Britain, 1066-1939 (1961) (6)
An Economic and Social History of Britain Since 1700 (1963) (6)
The search for wealth and stability : essays in economic and social history presented to M.W. Flinn (1980) (6)
The government and the economy (1975) (6)
Iron and Steel in Nineteenth-Century America. An Economic Enquiry. (1966) (5)
William Wood and the Coke-Smelting Process (1961) (5)
The stabilisation of mortality in preindustrial Western Europe. (1974) (5)
The Lloyds in the Early English Iron Industry (1959) (4)
Revisions in Economic History: XVII.The Growth of the English Iron Industry 1660-1760 (1958) (4)
THE ENGLISH STEEL INDUSTRY BEFORE 1856, WITH SPECIAL REFERENCE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE YORKSHIRE STEEL INDUSTRY (1954) (4)
Animal magnetism, or mesmerism and its phenomena (1978) (4)
British population growth, 1700-1850 : prepared for the Economic History Society (1970) (3)
Sir Ambrose Crowley and the South Sea Scheme of 1711 (1960) (3)
Abraham Darby and the Coke-Smelting Process (1959) (3)
English Workers’Living Standards During The Industrial Revolution: A Comment (1984) (3)
Public support for the arts in Scotland - the role of the Scottish Arts Council (1979) (2)
Scottish Population History from the 17th Century to the 1930s (1979) (2)
Implications for Economic Growth (1970) (2)
Working-class movements (1975) (2)
The Working Class Movement (1964) (2)
North Country Life in the Eighteenth Century. Vol. II: Cumberland and Westmorland, 1700-1830. (1965) (1)
Industry and Technology in the Derwent Valley of Durham and Northumberland in the Eighteenth Century (1953) (1)
Proceedings of the seventh International Economic History Congress (1978) (1)
The Hollow Sword-Blade Company (1954) (1)
Unicorn. Myth and reality (1978) (1)
Sir Ambrose Crowley, Ironmonger, 1658-1713 (1965) (1)
Urban Living Conditions (1964) (1)
Readings in economic and social history (1964) (1)
A Selection from the Records of Philip Foley's Stour Valley Iron Works, 1668–74. Part I. Edited by R. G. Schafer. Worcestershire Historical Society Publications, New Series, volume 9. Worcester, 1978. Pp. xxiii, 128. £12.00 to non-members (1979) (1)
Calculation of Exposure Times for Successive Autoradiographs (1964) (1)
The Chronology of Growth (1970) (0)
THE OVERSEAS TRADE OF SCOTTISH PORTS, 1900–1960 (1966) (0)
Men of Iron: The Crowleys in the Early Iron Industry. (1964) (0)
Real Wage Trends in Britain, 1750-1850: A Reply (1976) (0)
British Population Growth, 1700-1850@@@The Decline of Serfdom in Medieval England@@@The Development of English Agriculture, 1815-1873@@@Enclosure and the Small Farmer in the Age of the Industrial Revolution (1972) (0)
The Poor Law and the Relief of Unemployment (1964) (0)
Man versus Society in Eighteenth-Century Britian. Six Points of View. (1969) (0)
The Poor Law (1964) (0)
People and towns (1975) (0)
Social problems, policies and achievements (1975) (0)
The framework of industrial Britain (1975) (0)
A Junior Sketch-Map Economic History of Britain. (1962) (0)
Captain swing: A review (1969) (0)
Peter Laslett, Karla Oosterveen and Richard M. Smith (eds.), Bastardy and its Comparative History . London: Edward Arnold, 1980. xv + 431 pp. £24.00. (1982) (0)
Economic Development of the British Coal Industry, 1800-1914@@@The History of the British Coal Industry (1985) (0)
Review of M.W. Flinn, The European Demographic System and R.J. Evans and W.R. Lee, eds., The German Family (1982) (0)
Banking and Monetary Policy (1964) (0)
The First Industrial Revolution.@@@Origins of the Industrial Revolution. (1967) (0)
Elizabethan Monopolies: The History of the Company of Mineral and Battery Works. By M. B. Donald. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1961. Pp. xvi, 256. 50s (1963) (0)
Demography in Early America: Beginnings of the Statistical Mind, 1600–1800. By James H. Cassedy. (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 1969. Pp. xi, 357. $8.50.) (1970) (0)
Ideas and social movements (1975) (0)
Population and Social Change.@@@Nineteenth-Century Society. (1973) (0)
The Population Controversy.@@@The Development of Population Statistics.@@@Numbering the People. The Eighteenth-Century Population Controversy and the Development of Census and Vital Statistics in Britain. (1974) (0)
Population Growth and Agrarian Change: An Historical Perspective@@@The European Demographic System, 1500-1820 (1982) (0)

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