Edward carr

Carr was both an international historian and a philosopher of history, most notable in the former capacity for his 14-volume History of Soviet Russia and in the latter for his book What is History?

Forenames:

Edward Hallet

Surname:

Carr

Honours:

CBE

Dates:

1892–1982

Institutions:

HM Foreign Office (now Foreign and Commonwealth Office)
University of Cambridge (Trinity College)
University of Wales (Aberystwyth)

Significant posts:

Fellow, University of Cambridge (Trinity College)

Contemporaries:

Behrens, (Catherine) Betty Abigail
Namier, Lewis Bernstein

Influenced:

Hill, Christopher
Hilton, Rodney
Hobsbawm, Eric
Rud, George
Thompson, Edward

Themes:

Contemporary history
International history
Modern European history
Soviet history

Biographies:

Blackwell Dictionary of Historians
Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Proceedings of the British Academy

Obituaries:

Times

Bibliography

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Edward Hallett Carr

Born

in London, The United Kingdom

June 28, 1892

Died

November 03, 1982

Genre

History, Politics

Influences

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Edward Hallett Carr was a liberal realist and later left-wing British historian, journalist and international relations theorist, and an opponent of empiricism within historiography.

Carr was best known for his 14-volume history of the Soviet Union, in which he provided an account of Soviet history from 1917 to 1929, for his writings on international relations, and for his book What Is History?, in which he laid out historiographical principles rejecting traditional historical methods and practices.

Educated at Cambridge, Carr began his career as a diplomat in 1916. Becoming increasingly preoccupied with the study of international relations and of the Soviet Union, he resigned from the Foreign Office in 1936 to begin an academic career. From Edward Hallett Carr was a liberal realist and later left-wing British historian, journalist and international relations theo

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Edward Hallett Carr

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1892-1982.  Left-wing historian and diplomatist. 

Ted Carr was educated at Merchant Taylors' School, and won the Craven Scholarship to Trinity. He began his career as a diplomat in 1916. Becoming increasingly preoccupied with the study of international relations and of the Soviet Union, he resigned from the Foreign Office in 1936 to begin an academic career.

From 1941 to 1946, Carr worked as an assistant editor at The Times, where he was noted for his controversial editorials urging a socialist system and an Anglo-Soviet alliance as the basis of a post-war order.

He became a Fellow of Trinity in 1955 and remained so until his death.  Here Carr worked on a massive 14-volume work on Soviet history entitled A History of Soviet Russia, a project on which he was still engaged at the time of his death in 1982. In 1961 he delivered the G.M. Trevelyan lectures which became the basis for his book, What is History? in which he laid out historiographical principles rejecting traditional historical methods and practices.  Moving incre