Peter Clark (historian), Date of Birth
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British historian, professor emeritus of urban history (University of Helsinki)
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About Peter Clark (historian)
- Peter Alan Clark (born 24 May, 1944) is a British historian.
- Since 2000, he was professor of European urban history at the University of Helsinki.
- He retired in 2011.Clark was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and graduated (Modern History first class) in 1966.
- He started his career as a research fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford.
- He was then lecturer, reader and later professor of economic and social history at the University of Leicester.
- From 1985 to 1999, he was the first director of the Centre for Urban History of the University of Leicester.In 1989, he was co-founder (with Bernard Lepetit and Herman Diederiks) of the European Association for Urban History and served as its Treasurer from 1989 to 2010.
- He was also Secretary of International Commission for the History of Towns 1993 to 1995.He has contributed to a number of publications, including the Cambridge Urban History of Britain.
- Clark is a member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters and a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, of which he was a Council member from 1991 to 1995.
- He was elected a member of the Academy of Europe in 2010 and the Royal Belgian Academy (Flemish) in 2015.
- He was awarded an Honorary Degree of Philosophy by Stockholm University in 2012.
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