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Vincent, David (2020). A History of Solitude. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Vincent, David (2016). Privacy: A Short History. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Vincent, David (2015). I Hope I Don't Intrude: Privacy and its Dilemmas in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Barker, Hannah and Vincent, David eds. (2001). Language, print and electoral politics, 1790-1832. Parliamentary History Record Series. UK: The Boydell Press/The Parliamentary History Yearbook Trust.

Vincent, David (2019). ‘The Modern History of Literacy'. In: Rury, John L. and Tamura, Eileen eds. The Oxford Handbook of the History of Education. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 507–522.

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Vincent, David (2018). ‘Social Reform’. In: Patten, Robert L.; Jordan, John O. and Waters, Catherine eds. The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens. Oxford University Press, pp. 420–435.

Vincent, David (2016). Working-class autobiography in the nineteenth century. In: Smyth, Adam ed. A History of English Autobiography. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 165–178.

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Vincent, David (2011). The end of literacy: the growth and measurement of British public education since the early nineteenth century. In: Bayly, C. A.; Rao, Vijayendra; Szreter, Simon and Woolcock, Michael eds. History, Historians and Development Policy: A Necessary Dialogue. Manchester: Manchester University Press, pp. 177–192.

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Vincent, David (2011). Government and the management of information 1844-2009. In: Gunn, Simon and Vernon, James eds. The Peculiarities of Liberal Modernity in Imperial Britain. Berkeley Series in British Studies. Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA, USA and London, UK: University of California Press, pp. 165–181.

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Vincent, David (2009). “History must be written imperfectly”: closure and disclosure in British Public Records 1838-2006. In: Flynn, Andrew and Jones, Harriet eds. Freedom of Information. Open Access, Empty Archives? London and New York: Routledge, pp. 9–22.

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Colclough, Stephen and Vincent, David (2009). Reading. In: McKitterick, David ed. The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain Vol. VI. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, pp. 281–323.

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Vincent, David (2006). Dickens's reading public. In: Pattern, Robert L. and Bowden, John eds. Palgrave advances in Charles Dickens studies. London, UK: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 176–197.

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Vincent, David (2005). The Post. In: Graff, Harvey J.; Moch, Leslie P. and McMichael, Philip eds. Looking backward and looking forward: perspectives on social science history. Madison, USA: University of Wisconsin Press, pp. 168–175.

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Vincent, David (2022). [Book Review] Katie Hindmarch-Watson. Serving a Wired World. London’s Telecommunications Workers and the Making of an Information Capital. The American Historical Review, 127(1) pp. 543–544.

Vincent, David (2018). [Book Review] The Littlehampton Libels: A Miscarriage of Justice and a Mystery about Words in 1920s England, by Christopher Hilliard. The English Historical Review, 133(565) pp. 1647–1649.

Vincent, David (2014). ‘The invention of counting: the statistical measurement of literacy in nineteenth-century England’. Comparative Education, 50(3) pp. 266–281.

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Vincent, David (2003). Literacy Literacy. Interchange, 34(2-3) pp. 341–357.

Vincent, D.M. (2003). The Progress of Literacy. Victorian Studies, 45(3) pp. 405–431.