Peter Clarke was formerly a professor of modern history and Master of Trinity Hall at Cambridge. His many books include Keynes: The Twentieth Century's Most Influential Economist, The Last Thousand Days of the British Empire, The Keynesian Revolution in the Making, 1924-1936 and the acclaimed final volume of the Penguin History of Britain, Hope and Glory, Britain 1900-2000. He lives with his wife, the B.C. writer and scholar Maria Tippett. They formerly lived part of each year in Cambridge, England, and on Bowen Island, prior to their move to Salt Spring Island, then onto Pender Island.

CITY/TOWN: Pender Island

DATE OF BIRTH: July 21, 1942

PLACE OF BIRTH: Derbyshire, England

ARRIVAL IN CANADA: 1994

EMPLOYMENT OTHER THAN WRITING: university professor

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Mr Churchill's Profession: Statesman, Orator, Writer (Bloomsbury, 2012)

The Cripps Version: the life of Sir Stafford Cripps, 1889-1952, Penguin, 2002

A Question of Leadership: Gladstone to Blair, Penguin, 1999

The Keynesian Revolution and its Economic Consequences, Edward Elgar, 1997

Hope and Glory: Britain 1900-1990, Penguin, 1996

The Keynesian Revolution in the Making, 1924-36, Oxford UP, 1988

Liberals and Social Democrats, Cambridge UP, 1978

Lancasgire and the New Liberalism, Cambridge UP, 1971

[BCBW 2013]