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According to Wikipedia, Simon Alexander Lindsay Gunn is a historian who was Professor of Urban History at the University of Leicester from 2006 to 2021. Career Gunn completed his doctor of philosophy of degree at the University of Manchester in 1992 for a thesis entitled Manchester middle class, 1850–1880. He was a fellow at the Institute of Historical Research, and the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, before teaching at the Universities of Manchester, Essex and Leeds Metropolitan, where he was appointed a Reader in History. In 2006, he moved to the University of Leicester as a Professor of Urban History. As of 2017, he is co-editor of the journal Urban History. He retired from his professorship in 2021 and became an emeritus professor at Leicester.

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The public culture of the Victorian middle class : ritual and authority and the English industrial city 1840-1914 (2000) (138)
Traffic in towns : a study of the long term problems of traffic in urban areas (The Buchanan report) (2015) (104)
Translating Bourdieu: cultural capital and the English middle class in historical perspective. (2005) (92)
From Hegemony to Governmentality: Changing Conceptions of Power in Social History (2006) (65)
The Buchanan Report, environment and the problem of traffic in 1960s Britain. (2011) (54)
History and Cultural Theory (2006) (53)
Middle Classes: Their Rise and Sprawl (2002) (42)
People and the car: the expansion of automobility in urban Britain, c.1955–70 (2013) (41)
The Rise and Fall of British Urban Modernism: Planning Bradford, circa 1945–1970 (2010) (41)
Class, identity and the urban: the middle class in England, c. 1790–1950 (2004) (39)
Indian Ink: Script and Print in the Making of the English East India Company (2010) (38)
The ministry, the middle class and the'civilizing mission’ in Manchester, 1850–80∗ (1996) (36)
Identities in space : contested terrains in the western city since 1850 (2001) (30)
Research Methods for History (2011) (24)
The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain (2011) (17)
RING ROAD: BIRMINGHAM AND THE COLLAPSE OF THE MOTOR CITY IDEAL IN 1970s BRITAIN (2017) (16)
The King's mother: Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby. book review. (1992) (12)
The chief governors: the rise and fall of reform government in Tudor Ireland, 1536-1588. Book review. (1996) (11)
Nature, technology and the modern city: an introduction (2006) (11)
Revolution of the right : Europe's new conservatives (1989) (10)
Practising reflexivity: The place of theory in university uistory (2006) (10)
Post-Industrial Place, Multicultural Space: The Transformation of Leicester, c. 1970–1990 (2013) (9)
The Sublime and the Vulgar: the Hallé concerts and the constitution of ‘high culture’ in Manchester c. 1850–1880 (1997) (8)
Automobility and the City in Twentieth-Century Britain and Japan (2019) (8)
Ritual and civic culture in the English industrial city, c. 1835–1914 (2017) (5)
Knowledge, power and the city since 1700 (2002) (5)
European Urbanities since 1945: A Commentary (2015) (4)
New Approaches to Social History. Myth, Memory, and Place: Monmouth and Bath 1750-1900 (2006) (4)
Urban agency: debating the aims and limits of urban history (2016) (3)
City of Mirrors: The Arcades Project and urban history (2002) (3)
Between modernity and backwardness: the case of the English middle class (2020) (3)
Spatial mobility in later twentieth-century Britain (2021) (3)
New Approaches to Governance and Rule in Urban Europe Since 1500 (2020) (1)
Modernizing England's past: English historiography in the age of modernism, 1870-1970 (2007) (1)
Between Modernism and Conservation: Konrad Smigielski and the Planning of Postwar Leicester (2015) (0)
Reviews of Books:Public Speech and the Culture of Public Life in the Age of Gladstone Joseph S. Meisel (2002) (0)
The reign of Mary Tudor: politics, government and religion in England, 1553-58. Book review. (1992) (0)
Unravelling Urban Governance (2020) (0)
Introduction to Traffic in Towns (2015) (0)
Cities, infrastructure and the making of modern citizenship: the view from north-west Europe since c. 1870 (2022) (0)
Book Review (2006) (0)
R. J. Morris (ed.), Class, Power and Social Structure in British Nineteenth-century Towns , 1986. xiii + 222pp. Themes in Urban History Series, Leicester University Press. £27.50. (1987) (0)
Time and the shape of history – By Penelope J. Corfield (2008) (0)
Malarial Subjects: Empire, medicine and nonhumans in British India, 1820–1909 by Rohan Deb Roy (review) (2019) (0)
Public Speech and the Culture of Public Life in the Age of Gladstone (Book) (2002) (0)
Powers of the city: new perspectives in urban history (2014) (0)
Sam Wetherell. Foundations: How the Built Environment Made Twentieth-Century Britain. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. 272. $35.00 (cloth). (2022) (0)
Sir Rhys ap Thomas and his family: a study in the Wars of the Roses and early Tudor politics. Book review. (1994) (0)
Illuminating the Victorian city (2010) (0)
Book Reviews (2007) (0)
Book Reviews (2006) (0)
Urban mobility and inequalities. Some perspectives from different disciplines (2019) (0)

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