Arthur Marwick

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Arthur John Brereton Marwick, (29 February 1936–27 September 2006) was a professor in history. Born in Edinburgh, he was a graduate of Edinburgh University and Balliol College, Oxford.

[edit] Career

Marwick 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 and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He was a left-wing historian.

[edit] Bibliography

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
The Sixties: Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c. 1958-c. 1974