About the Author

Peter Clarke is Professor of Modern History and a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He has published three major books on aspects of British political history in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including The Keynesian Revolution in the Making 1924-1936 (1988). He is the author of volume nine of the Penguin History of Britain, Hope and Glory, Britain 1900-1990. He writes regularly on history and politics for The Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books.