He completed an undergraduate degree in Economics and Economic History at the
University of Warwick and then a
doctorate (DPhil, 1984) in Modern History at
St Antony's College, Oxford, with a thesis entitled
The standard of living of the working classes, 1881–1912: The cost of living and the analysis of family budgets. He then held a Prize Research Fellowship at
Nuffield College, Oxford, before joining the
University of Sussex in 1985; until 2018, he was Professor of Economic History there, and has since been an emeritus professor in the History Faculty. In 2016, he was elected a Fellow of the
Academy of Social Sciences. In 2018, Gazeley took up a
visiting professorship in the Department of Economic History at the
London School of Economics.
Publications Gazeley's published works include: •
Poverty in Britain, 1900–65, Social History in Perspective Series (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003). • (edited with
Nicholas Crafts and
Andrew Newell)
Work and Pay in Twentieth-Century Britain (Oxford University Press, 2007). • "Women's pay in British industry during the Second World War",
Economic History Review, vol. 61, no. 3 (2008). pp. 651–671. • (with Andrew Newell) "Poverty in Edwardian Britain",
Economic History Review, vol. 64, no. 1 (2011), pp. 52–71. • (with
Claire Langhamer) "The meanings of happiness in Mass Observation's Bolton",
History Workshop Journal, vol. 75, no. 1 (2012), pp. 159–189. • (with
Sara Horrell) "Nutrition in the English agricultural labourer's household over the course of the long nineteenth century",
Economic History Review, vol. 66, no. 3 (2013). pp. 757–784. • (with Andrew Newell) "Urban working-class food consumption and nutrition in Britain in 1904",
Economic History Review, vol. 68, no. 1 (2015), pp. 101–122. == Reviews of published books ==