Arthur Marwick

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Arthur John Brereton Marwick, (born in Edinburgh on 29 February 1936; died 27 September 2006) was a University Professor in History. He was a graduate of Edinburgh University and Balliol College, Oxford.

[edit] Career

He was appointed the first Professor of History at the Open University in 1969, after lecturing at Edinburgh for ten years. He held visiting professorships at the State University of New York at Buffalo; Stanford University; Rhodes College; Memphis’ L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

[edit] His Works

• The Explosion of British Society, republished as The Explosion of British Society 1914-1970 (1971)
• The Deluge, British Society and the First World War (1965)
• Britain in the Century of Total War (1968)
• The Nature of History (1970)
• War and Social Change in the Twentieth century
• Total War and Historical Change, Europe 1914-1955
• British Society since 1945 with J.H. Plumb
• The New Nature of History
• Windows on the Sixties with A. Aldgate and J. Chapman
• A History of the Modern British Isles, 1914-1999
• The Arts in the West since 1945
• It: a History of Human Beauty
• Europe on the Eve of War, 1900-1914
• World War II and its Consequences
• Class: Image and Reality
• Culture in Britain since 1945
• Princes and Peoples: Parliaments and Kings
• An Introduction to the Humanities
• Arts, Literature and Society
• Illustrated Dictionary of British History
• Britain in Our Century
• Class in the Twentieth Century
• Social Change in Britain, 1920-1970