Harold Perkin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Harold Perkin

British historian

Date of Birth: 11-Nov-1926

Place of Birth: Hanley, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 16-Oct-2004

Profession: historian

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Harold James Perkin (11 November 1926 – 16 October 2004) was an English social historian and founder of the Social History Society (1976). Perkin was born in Hanley, Staffordshire of humble origins.
He attended Hanley High School and gained a scholarship to Jesus College, Cambridge from 1945, with a starred First Class degree in 1948.
Then followed National Service in the RAF.
Rejected by his Cambridge college to study for a PhD, he began extramural history teaching from 1950 with Manchester University.