G. E. Mingay

Gordon Edmund Mingay (1923 – 3 January 2006) was a British historian.

Academic career

After the war, Mingay worked for the Kent Education Department and studied part-time at Chatham Technical College. In 1949, he entered the University of Nottingham and was regarded by Professor J. D. Chambers as a hard-working and talented student. Chambers, who became Mingay's mentor, encouraged him to study agrarian history and his BA dissertation was an examination of the estates of the Duke of Kingston. He was awarded a BA first class degree in 1952 and the external examiner, H. J. Habakkuk, said Mingay's dissertation could have earned him a B.Litt. at Oxford University.

Works

• The English Landed Society in the Eighteenth Century (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1963).
• (with J. D. Chambers) The Agricultural Revolution, 1730-1880 (London: Batsford, 1965).
• Enclosure and the Small Farmer in the Age of the Industrial Revolution (London: Macmillan, 1968).
• (with P. S. Bagwell) Britain and America, 1850–1939 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1971).
• Georgian London (London: Batsford, 1975).
• The Gentry: The Rise and Fall of a Ruling Class (London: Longman, 1976).
• Rural Life in Victorian England (London: Heinemann, 1977).
• The Transformation of Britain 1830–1939 (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987).
• A Social History of the English Countryside (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1990).
• Land and Society in England, 1750–1980 (London: Longman, 1994).
• Parliamentary Enclosure in England (London: Longman, 1997).