John Clapham (economic historian)
Sir John Harold Clapham, CBE, FBA (13 September 1873 – 29 March 1946) was a British economic historian.
He was educated at The Leys School in Cambridge and King's College, Cambridge. From 1889 to 1902 he was a lecturer in History and Economics at Leeds University and was Professor of Economics there from 1902 to 1908.[1] He was the first Professor of Economic History at Cambridge University from 1928 to 1938, and Vice-Provost of King's College, Cambridge from 1933 until 1943 when he received a knighthood.
Between 1926 and 1938 he published, in three volumes, An Economic History of Modern Britain.[2][3] He is also recognised for his study of the Industrial Revolution in England, and for describing cooperatives in the initiation of the revolution. He is also remembered for his 1944 The Bank of England, A History.[4]
Welsh economic historian Sir John Habakkuk was one of his students.[5] One of Clapham's more notable quotations is: "Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress".[6]
Clapham's son was the printer and industrialist Sir Michael Clapham.
References
- ^ "Clapham, John Harold (CLFN892JH)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "Clapham, John - Historian Profiles - Making History". History.ac.uk. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ Boyd, Kelly (1999). Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing - Kelly Boyd - Google Books. ISBN 9781884964336. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- ^ Clapham, J. (1944) The Bank of England, A History (2 Vols), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-04662-9
- ^ F. M. L. Thompson, obituary, The Independent (11 November 2002)[dead link]
- ^ Clapham, John. A Concise Economic History Of Britain. pp. Introduction.
External links
- Obituary Notice by M. M. Postan, The Economic History Review, Vol. 16, No. 1 (1946), pp. 56–59
- Works by or about John Clapham at Internet Archive
- "Archival material relating to John Clapham". UK National Archives.
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