Robert Alexander Clarke Parker

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Robert Alexander Clarke Parker , also Alastair Parker , mostly quoted RAC Parker, (born June 15, 1927 in Barnsley , South Yorkshire , † April 23, 2001 in Oxford ) was a British historian who dealt with the Second World War and its prehistory in the Appeasement policy against the National Socialists in the 1930s.

He served in the Navy during World War II and then won a scholarship to Christ Church College, Oxford University , where he graduated with top marks in history. He was a scholar from 1948 and a senior scholar from 1950 at Christ Church College, received his MA in 1952 and received his doctorate in Oxford in 1957. In 1952 he became Assistant Lecturer (at the invitation of Lewis Namier ) and in 1955 Lecturer in Modern History at the University of Manchester and in 1957 Fellow of Queen's College, Oxford University, Tutor and Praelector in Modern History. In 1997 he retired.

In Manchester he turned to the policy of appeasement towards Hitler in the 1930s, for which he was considered the leading authority in Great Britain. He wrote a book in 1993 on Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy and in 2000 on the critical stance of Winston Churchill , who was sympathetic and admired on this issue. He was also known through a history of the Second World War (Struggle for Survival 1989). At his death he prepared a short biography of Churchill and a comparison of British and French appeasement policies.

He was married to the social scientist Julia Dixon and had two daughters with her. Politically, he was close to old Labor attitudes and he collected art.

Fonts

  • The Twentieth Century I: Europe 1918-1945 , Fischer Weltgeschichte , Volume 34, 1967
    • English edition: Europe: 1918-1945 , Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1969
    • Special edition in 36 volumes ( Weltbild Weltgeschichte ), Augsburg 2000, ISBN 3-89350-989-5
  • Coke of Norfolk: A Financial and Agricultural Study, 1707-1842 , Oxford, Clarendon Press 1975 (dissertation 1957, on Thomas William Coke, 1st Earl of Leicester (Coke of Norfolk or Coke of Holkham) and the Agricultural Revolution of the 18th Century )
  • France and the Rhineland Crisis of 1936 , 1956
  • Struggle For Survival: the history of the second world war , Oxford University Press, 1989
  • Chamberlain and Appeasement: British policy and the coming of the Second World War . Palgrave Macmillan, 1993
  • Churchill and Appeasement. Could Churchill have prevented the Second World War? , Macmillan, 2000
  • Second World War: a short history , Oxford University Press 1997, 2001
  • Editor Winston Churchill: studies in statesmanship , London, Washington 1995

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ He had ancestors in Yorkshire and Scotland and changed his first name to Alastair because of his Scottish ancestors
  2. ↑ Biography based on Fischer Weltgeschichte Volume 34
personal data
SURNAME Parker, Robert Alexander Clarke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Parker, Alastair
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British historian
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Barnsley , South Yorkshire
DATE OF DEATH April 23, 2001
Place of death Oxford