Charles Loch Mowat (4 October 1911 – 23 June 1970) was a British-born American historian.

Biography

Mowat was educated at Marlborough College and St John's College, Oxford. John Ramsden (ed.), ''The Oxford Companion to Twentieth Century British Politics'' (Oxford University Press, 2005), p. 446. In 1934 he emigrated to the United States, where he became an American citizen. From 1934 until 1936 he taught at the

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. In 1936 he took up a position at the

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. His opposition to McCarthyism led to him leaving UCLA and taking a post at the

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in 1950. In 1958 he returned to Britain to be professor of history at the University College of North Wales, Bangor, a post he held until 1958. His best known book is ''Britain Between the Wars'', which became the standard text on the nation's interwar period.

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wrote the volume in the '' Oxford History of England'' covering 1914–1945. After he was asked how he found out what basically happened in the period, Taylor answered: "I looked it up in Mowat".Boyd Hilton, ''A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England, 1783-1846'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2006), p. 671.

Works

*''East Florida as a British Province, 1763-84'' (1943). *''Britain Between the Wars, 1918–1940'' (1955).
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*''The Charity Organisation Society, 1869–1913'' (1961). *''The Golden Valley Railway'' (1964).

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Mowat, C. L. 1911 births 1970 deaths University of Minnesota alumni People educated at Marlborough College Alumni of St John's College, Oxford British emigrants to the United States 20th-century American historians 20th-century American male writers American male non-fiction writers