Educational Career
Thomas Ashton was educated at Ashton-under-Lyne secondary school and Manchester University. His academic career was focused on economics and public finance. Ashton was Assistant Lecturer in Economics at the Sheffield University from 1912 to 1919, and from 1919 to 1921 Lecturer and Tutor at Birmingham University. In 1921 he was appointed Senior Lecturer in Economics at Manchester University. Eventually he became Dean of the Faculty of Commerce and Administration and served in this capacity from 1938 to 1944. He then became professor of economic history at the London School of Economics where he served from 1944 to 1954. He was president of both the Manchester Statistical Society (1938–1940), and the Economic History Society (1960–1963).
His publications cover the economy of the eighteenth century and include the iron, steel and coal industries:
- Iron and Steel in the Industrial Revolution (1924)
- The Coal Industry (with Joseph Sykes) (1929)
- Economic and Social Investigations in Manchester 1833 - 1933 (1934)
- An Eighteenth-Century Industrialist: Peter Stubs of Warrington 1756 - 1806 (1939)
- The Industrial Revolution (1760–1830) (1948, 1997) online edition
- An Economic History of the Eighteenth Century (1955) online edition
- Economic Fluctuations in England 1700 - 1800 (1959) edited by EB Schumpeter
- English Overseas Trade Statistics 1697 - 1808 (1960)
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