Life

Richard Clogg studied history

History

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 at the University of Edinburgh

University of Edinburgh

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, where he graduated as Master

Master's degree

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 in 1963. From 1969 on, he was teaching modern Greek history at King's College, London, first as lecturer

Lecturer

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, then reader

Reader (academic rank)

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, finally from 1988 to 1995 as professor

Professor

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 of Balkan history. In 1995, he became senior research fellow

Research fellow

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 as well as fellow of the governing board of St Antony's College, Oxford.

Work

Clogg enjoys a reputation as one of the most important and influential specialists in modern and contemporary Greek history. His best-known work A Concise History of Greece (1992) set new standards in the field, was translated in several languages, and was awarded with the Runciman Award

Runciman Award

The Runciman Award is an annual award offered by the Anglo-Hellenic League for a work published in English dealing wholly or in part with Greece or Hellenism...

 in 1993. Clogg himself was decorated with the Gold Cross of the Greek Order of Honour by the President of Greece

President of Greece

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in 2002.

As author

• Parties and elections in Greece. The search for legitimacy, Durham: Duke University Press 1987.
• A short History of modern Greece, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1979.
• (with Mary Jo Clogg) Greece, Oxford: Clio 1980.
• A concise History of Greece, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1992 (²2002).
• Anatolica. Studies in the Greek east in the 18th and 19th centuries, Aldershot: Variorum 1996.
  • I kath'imas Anatoli. Studies in Ottoman Greek history, Istanbul: Isis Press 2004.
• Minorities in Greece. Aspects of a plural society, London: Hurst 2002.

As editor

• The Correspondence of Adhamantios Korais with Thomas Burgess 1789-1792, Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften 1969.
• The struggle for Greek independence. Essays to mark the 150. anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, London: Macmillan 1973.
• (with Phyllis Auty) British policy towards wartime resistance in Yugoslavia and Greece, London: Macmillan 1975.
• The movement for Greek independence, 1770-1821. A collection of documents, London: Macmillan 1976.
• Greece in the 1980s, London: Macmillan 1980.
• Balkan society in the age of Greek independence, London: Macmillan 1981.
• The Greek diaspora in the twentieth century, Basingstoke: Macmillan 1999.
• Greece 1940-1949. Occupation, resistance, civil war. A documentary history, Basingstoke et alib.: Palgrave Macmillan 2002.
• Bearing gifts to Greeks. Humanitarian aid to Greece in the 1940s, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2008.

External links

• Richard Clogg on UK in Greece