Peter Frederick Clarke, FBA (born 21 July 1942) is an English historian.
Peter Clarke studied at Eastbourne Grammar School and St John's College, Cambridge, where completed his B.A.
Clarke argued that the Liberals successfully modified their policies to embrace the progressive politics of New Liberalism, which helped them capture working class votes in the former Conservative stronghold of Lancashire.
[3] Clarke's The Keynesian Revolution in the Making, 1924–1936 (1988) was a study of John Maynard Keynes's economic proposals from his 1923 work A Tract on Monetary Reform to his 1936 General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.
[5] Clarke was elected a Fellow of the British Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences in 1989.