Martin Clark (historian)
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Martin Clark (30 September 1938 – 5 August 2017) was a British historian noted for his work on modern Italy.[1][2] He published at least four books, but is best known for Modern Italy, 1871 to the Present, first published by Longman in 1984. Described as 'authoritative', it was revised twice.[3] For the last two years of his life, he suffered from Parkinson's disease.[1]
Martin Nile Clark was born on 30 September 1938, in Worthing, West Sussex, the third child to Alfred Clark, a civil servant and his wife Muriel.[2] During the war the family moved to Llandudno, where Clark attended the Ysgol John Bright,[3] and learned to speak Welsh. He had an affinity for languages and when he joined the National Service, Clark was sent to the Joint Services School for Linguists at Crail.[2] Here he learned Russian for signals intelligence.[1]
