Peter Frederick Clarke, (born 21 July 1942) is an English historian.

Education

Peter Clarke studied at Eastbourne Grammar School and

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, where completed his B.A. in 1963, his M.A. and Ph.D. in 1967, and his Litt.D. in 1989.Who's Who 2013. A & C Black Publishers Ltd; 165th edition (3 Dec 2012). He is married to the Canadian cultural historian, Maria Tippett.

Career

His 1971 work ''Lancashire and the New Liberalism'' challenged George Dangerfield's thesis, expressed in '' The Strange Death of Liberal England'', that the decline of the

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was inevitable. Clarke argued that the Liberals successfully modified their policies to embrace the progressive politics of New Liberalism, which helped them capture working class votes in the former Conservative stronghold of

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. It was the

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, Clarke maintained, that caused the Liberals' decline. His next work, ''Liberals and Social Democrats'' (1978), examined the relationship between liberalism and socialism by focusing on four liberal and social democratic intellectuals:

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, L. T. Hobhouse, J. A. Hobson and J. L. Hammond. Clarke's ''The Keynesian Revolution in the Making, 1924–1936'' (1988) was a study of

John Maynard Keynes John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes ( ; 5 June 1883 – 21 April 1946), was an English economist and philosopher whose ideas fundamentally changed the theory and practice of macroeconomics and the economic policies of governments. Originall ...

's economic proposals from his 1923 work '' A Tract on Monetary Reform'' to his 1936 '' General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money''. Clarke was reader in modern history

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from 1978 to 1980, lecturer in history from 1980 to 1987 at the

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, a fellow of

from 1980 to 2000, tutor at St John's College from 1982 to 1987, reader in modern history from 1987 to 1991, professor of modern British history from 1991 to 2004. Clarke was elected a Fellow of the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences in 1989. He was master of

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from October 2000 to 2004. He is a UK citizen and also, since 1998, a Canadian citizen.

Works

*''Lancashire and the New Liberalism'' (1971). *''Liberals and Social Democrats'' (1978). *''The Keynesian Revolution in the Making'' (1988). *''A Question of Leadership: from Gladstone to Thatcher'' (1991, second edition 1999 (renamed ''From Gladstone to Blair'')). *''Hope and Glory: Britain 1900-1990'' (1996, second edition, 2004 (renamed ''Hope and Glory: Britain 1900-2000'')). *''Understanding Decline: perceptions and realities of British economic performance'' (joint editor, 1997). *''The Keynesian Revolution and its Economic Consequences'' (1998). *''The Cripps Version: The Life of Sir Stafford Cripps'' (2002). *''The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire'' (2007). Bloomsbury Press, *''Keynes: The Most Influential Economist of the 20th Century'' (2009). *''Mr Churchill's Profession: Statesman, Orator, Writer'' (2013). *''The Locomotive of War: Money, Empire, Power, and Guilt'' (2017). Bloomsbury Press, *''Keynes in Action, Truth and Expediency in Public Policy'' (2022). Cambridge University Press

References

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