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
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.
- ISBN 9781884964336. Retrieved 17 October 2015.
- 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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