Arthur Marwick, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Arthur Marwick

British historian

Date of Birth: 29-Feb-1936

Date of Death: 27-Sep-2006

Profession: historian

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Arthur Marwick

  • Arthur John Brereton Marwick (29 February 1936 – 27 September 2006) was a prolific British social historian, who served for many years as Professor of History at the Open University.
  • His research interests lay primarily in the history of Britain in the twentieth century, and the relationship between war and social change.
  • He is probably best known, however, for his more theoretical book The Nature of History (1970; revised editions 1981 and 1989), and its heavily reworked and expanded version The New Nature of History (2001), in which he defended an empirical and source-based approach towards the writing of history, and argued against the turn towards postmodernism.
  • He believed firmly that history was "of central importance to society".

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