Maurice Larkin

Born in Harrow-On-The-Hill Middlesex on August 12, 1932, he was an assistant lecturer at Glasgow university from 1958 to 1961. He also married Enid Lowe in 1958, and had a son and daughter. Later he became a lecturer from 1961-1965, and a lecturer in history in University of Kent located in Canterbury from 1965 to 1968. He then became a Senior Lecturer from 1968 to 1976, and finally became a Professor of history in Edinburg University from 1976 to 1999. He died in North Berwick, East Lothian on 29 February 2004.

• Gathering Pace; Continental Europe 1870-1945. New York: Humanities Press, 1970.
• Church and State after the Dreyfus Affair. The Separation Issue in France. London: Macmillan, 1974
  • Translated into French as: L’Église et l’État en France. 1905 : la crise de la Séparation, Toulouse : Privat, Bibliothèque historique universelle, 2004
• Man and Society in Nineteenth-Century Realism. Macmillan, 1977
• France since the Popular Front : Government and People, 1936-1986. Oxford University Press, 1988, 1997
• Religion, Politics and Preferment in France since 1890. La Belle Époque and its Legacy. Cambridge University Press, 1995, 2002.