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George Clark (historian)
Sir George Norman Clark (1890-1979, knighted 1953) was a 20th Century British historian. Educated at Manchester Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford he became the inaugural Chichele Professor of Economic History at the University of Oxford in 1931 (with the accompanying Fellowship at All Souls), a post he held until 1943. From then until 1947 he was Regius Professor of Modern History at Cambridge University and a fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge.
He wrote a general introduction to the second edition of the Cambridge Modern History (1957), criticising the belief of some historians (in particular Lord Acton who had edited the first edition over half a century earlier) that eventually it would be possible to write an "ultimate history ", rather they should expect their works to be built on and superceded by later historians.
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