Dr. John Kanefsky

Dr John Kanefsky studied and taught at the University of Exeter in the 1970s.

He then joined the National Coal Board history project, afterwards moving into management. Following privatisation, Dr Kanefsky had a varied career at the Coal Authority; in the NHS; in educational research; and lecturing in economic history.

He is an Honorary Fellow of the University of Exeter.  As well as Dr Kanefsky’s better-known research on steam power, he has written extensively about turnpike roads and is working on a monograph about the industrial history of Devon, with emphasis on road transport.