Professor Christopher Clark

Christopher Clark is Professor of Modern European History at St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge. He teaches and writes on various themes across the field of modern European history, but his specialty is the history of Germany since the eighteenth century.

Christopher presented a BBC4 documentary on Frederick the Great of Prussia in 2010. 

Christopher has appeared on various radio programmes (In Our Time, Nightwaves, Book of the Month, RTE (Ireland), NDR, MDR, RBB), and various television documentaries (Lion Television/Three Kings at War; credo:film/Rahel – a Prussian Affair).

His principal publications include Iron Kingdom. The Rise and Downfall of Prussia, 1600-1947 (Penguin/Allen Lane, London 2006/ US: Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass. 2006) and Kaiser Wilhelm II. A Life in Power (Allen Lane/Penguin, London 2009). Iron Kingdom won the Wolfson Prize in History (2007), the New South Wales Premier’s Prize for History (2007), the Queensland Premier’s Prize for General History (2007) and the H-Soz-und-Kult Buchpreis des Jahres 2007. The German edition of Iron Kingdom was a bestseller in 2007; French, Polish and Czech editions have recently appeared. He is currently working on a history of the July Crisis of 1914, which will appear with Penguin/Allen Lane in Britain, Harper Collins in the USA, Flammarion in France and DVA in Germany.

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