George Kitson Clark
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George Sidney Roberts Kitson Clark (1900–1975) was an English historian, a specialist in the nineteenth century.
historian of the Repeal of the Corn Laws. G. D. H. Cole
identified a "Kitson Clark" school of historians revising the assessment of the Anti-Corn Law League
and the Chartists.
He was educated at Shrewsbury School
and Trinity College, Cambridge
. He lived the life of a bachelor don as Fellow of Trinity, from 1922 to 1975. He was Reader in Constitutional History from 1954 to 1967.
Jack Plumb, who disliked Kitson Clark, describes him as a reformer of the History Tripos, and obstacle to Lewis Namier, with various swipes .
Historian
He is known as a revisionistHistorical revisionism
In historiography, historical revisionism is the reinterpretation of orthodox views on evidence, motivations, and decision-making processes surrounding a historical event...
historian of the Repeal of the Corn Laws. G. D. H. Cole
G. D. H. Cole
George Douglas Howard Cole was an English political theorist, economist, writer and historian. As a libertarian socialist he was a long-time member of the Fabian Society and an advocate for the cooperative movement...
identified a "Kitson Clark" school of historians revising the assessment of the Anti-Corn Law League
Anti-Corn Law League
The Anti-Corn Law League was in effect the resumption of the Anti-Corn Law Association, which had been created in London in 1836 but did not obtain widespread popularity. The Anti-Corn Law League was founded in Manchester in 1838...
and the Chartists.
He was educated at Shrewsbury School
Shrewsbury School
Shrewsbury School is a co-educational independent school for pupils aged 13 to 18, founded by Royal Charter in 1552. The present campus to which the school moved in 1882 is located on the banks of the River Severn in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England...
and Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College, Cambridge
Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge. Trinity has more members than any other college in Cambridge or Oxford, with around 700 undergraduates, 430 graduates, and over 170 Fellows...
. He lived the life of a bachelor don as Fellow of Trinity, from 1922 to 1975. He was Reader in Constitutional History from 1954 to 1967.
Jack Plumb, who disliked Kitson Clark, describes him as a reformer of the History Tripos, and obstacle to Lewis Namier, with various swipes .
Family
He was the son of the engineer Edwin Kitson Clark, and brother of Mary Kitson Clark.Works
- Guide for Research Students Working on Historical Subjects (1958)
- Making of Victorian England (1962)
- Peel and the Conservative Party (1964)
- An Expanding Society: Britain 1830-1900 (1967)
- The Critical Historian (1967)
- Churchmen and the Condition of England 1832–1885 (1973)
- Portrait of an Age (1977) editor