Martyn Lyons

Martyn Lyons (born 1946) is emeritus professor of history and European studies at the University of New South Wales, Australia.[1] He is a specialist in the history of the book, Australian history and French history.

Lyons was born in London and educated at the University of Oxford.[2]

Selected publications
  • Lyons M, 2011, Books - A Living History, Thames and Hudson, London.
  • Lyons M, 2010, A History of Reading and Writing in the Western World, hb, Palgrave-Macmillan UK, Basingstoke UK.
  • Lyons M, 2013, The writing culture of ordinary people in Europe, c. 1860?1920, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.
  • Lyons M, 2008, Reading culture and writing practices in nineteenth-century France, University of Toronto Press, Toronto.
  • Lyons M, (ed.), 2007, Ordinary Writings, Personal Narratives: Writing Practices in 19th and early 20th-century Europe, Peter Lang, Switzerland.
  • Lyons M, 2006, Post-Revolutionary Europe, 1815-1856, 1, Palgrave Macmillan, Houndsmills, Basingstoke UK.
  • Lyons M; Russell P, (eds.), 2005, Australia`s History: themes and debates, 1, University of New South Wales Press, Sydney.
  • Lyons M, 2001, Readers and society in nineteenth-century France: workers, women, peasants, Palgrave, Houndsmills, UK.
  • Lyons M; Arnold J, (eds.), 2001, A history of the book in Australia, 1891-1945: a national culture in a colonised market, 1st, Queensland University Press, St Lucia, Queensland.
  • Lyons M; Leahy C, 1999, A Palavra impressa: historias da leitura no seculo XIX, Casa da Palavra, Rio de Janeiro.
  • Aldrich R; Lyons M, (eds.), 1999, The Sphinx in the Tuileries and other essays in French History, University of Sydney, Sydney.
  • Lyons M, 1994, Napoleon Bonaparte and the Legacy of the French Revolution, Palgrave-Macmillan, Basingstoke UK.
  • Lyons M; Taksa L, 1992, Australian Readers Remember: an oral history of reading, 1890-1930, Oxford University Press, Melbourne.
  • Lyons M, 1987, Le Triomphe du Livre: une histoire sociologique de la lecture dans la France du XIXe siecle, Promodis, Paris.
  • Lyons M, 1986, The Totem and the Tricolour: A short history of New Caledonia since 1774, UNSW Press, Sydney.
  • Lyons M, 1980, Revolution et Terreur a Toulouse, Privat, Toulouse.
  • Lyons M, 1975, France under the Directory, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK.
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References
  1. Professor Martyn Lyons. Archived 2019-03-11 at the Wayback Machine UNSW Australia. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  2. Lyons M. (2011) Books - A Living History. London: Thames and Hudson, cover notes.


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