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These ten essays present a historical and critical overview of British historical thought and writing since , focusing on selected periods, regions.

Peter Burke is Emeritus Professor of Cultural History, University of Cambridge.

In his memoirs, he tells the story of how, as he puts it, 'Martin Luther met me on the road to Wittenberg.' When he was a student, he and a com.

At the beginning of my academic career, at the University of Sussex in the early s, I volunteered to teach a course on 'Social Structure and.

Professor Peter Burke is Emeritus Professor of Cultural History at Cambridge University.

Peter Burke (historian)

British historian and professor (born )

For other people with the same name, see Peter Burke.

Ulick Peter Burke (born 16 August ) is a British polymath, historian and professor.^[1] He was born to a Roman Catholic father and Jewish mother (who later converted to Roman Catholicism).

He was educated by the Jesuits and at St John's College, Oxford and was a doctoral candidate at St Antony's College, Oxford.^[2]

From to , he was a member of the School of European Studies at University of Sussex, before moving to the University of Cambridge, where he holds the title of Professor Emeritus of Cultural History and Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.

Burke is celebrated as a historian not only of the early modern era, but one who emphasizes the relevance of social and cultural history to modern issues. He is married to the Brazilian historian Maria Lúcia Garcia Pallares-Burke who is the author of two books (in one of which she collaborat