Harold Perkin Explained

Harold James Perkin
Birth Date:11 November 1926
Birth Place:Hanley, Staffordshire, England
Death Date:16 October 2004
Discipline:Historian

Harold James Perkin (11 November 1926 – 16 October 2004) was a distinguished English social historian who was the founder of the Social History Society in 1976.

Background

Perkin was born in Hanley, Staffordshire, of humble origins. He attended Hanley High School and won a scholarship to Jesus College, Cambridge, from 1945, gaining a starred First Class degree in 1948. After National Service in the RAF, he was rejected by his Cambridge college to study for a PhD. He began extramural history teaching from 1950 with the University of Manchester.[1] [2] [3] [4]

Academic career

Perkin was a lecturer in social history at the University of Manchester (1951–1965), then a Senior Lecturer (1965–1967), a Professor (1967–1984) in social history and Director of the centre for social history (1974–84) at the University of Lancaster, and an Emeritus Professor of History at Northwestern University, Illinois (1985–1997). In addition, he held a visiting professorship at Rice University and founded the Social History Society. Perkin was Chairman (1976–1991), and served as chief salary negotiator for the Association of University Teachers, of which he was later President. He was a distinguished, pioneering social historian, whose interests included transport.[5]

Publications

Television

Television shows for Granada TV

Both were later issued in book form.

External links

Notes and References

  1. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article402801.ece '"Professor Harold Perkin (Obituary)"
  2. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/oct/23/guardianobituaries.britishidentity David Cannadine,Harold Perkin Obituary,
  3. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-harold-perkin-531714.html Jeffrey Richards, Professor Harold Perkin: Obituary
  4. http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/Issues/2005/0504/0504mem3.cfm In Memoriam: Harold Perkin,
  5. Pamela Cox: "Social History 40 Years On", History Today Vol. 66/5, May 2016.
  6. http://www.eric.ed.gov/ERICWebPortal/contentdelivery/servlet/ERICServlet?accno=ED056669 Complete text in pdf