Peter Clark

Who is Peter Clark?

Peter Clark is a British historian. Since 2000, he has been a professor of European urban history at the University of Helsinki.

Clark was educated at Balliol College, Oxford and graduated in 1966. He started his career as a research fellow at Magdalen College, Oxford. He was then lecturer, reader and later professor of economic and social history at the University of Leicester. From 1985 to 1999, he was the director of the Centre for Urban History of the University of Leicester.

He contributed to a number of publications, including the Cambridge Urban History of Britain.