Martin Clark (30 September 1938 – 5 August 2017) was a British historian noted for his work on modern Italy.
[2] During the war the family moved to Llandudno, where Clark attended the Ysgol John Bright,[3] and learned to speak Welsh.
[1] During his time studying history at Peterhouse, Cambridge, he became interested in modern Italy, encouraged by Denis Mack Smith.
He joined the British Council where he travelled around Europe before returning to Birkbeck College, where he studied the organisation of factory workers in Turin after World War I under the supervision of Eric Hobsbawm.
[1][2] He completed his PhD dissertation 'Factory councils and the Italian labour movement, 1916-21' in 1966,[4] the basis for his book Antonio Gramsci and the Revolution that Failed (1977).