Maurice Larkin

Maurice J. M. Larkin was an English historian specializing in the history of the modern France. He held the Richard Pares Chair of History at Edinburgh University from 1976 till 1999. Larkin was also a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Selected works

Gathering Pace; Continental Europe 1870-1945. New York: Humanities Press, 1970.Church and State after the Dreyfus Affair. The Separation Issue in France. London: Macmillan, 1974

* Translated into French as: L’Église et l’État en France. 1905 : la crise de la Séparation, Toulouse : Privat, Bibliothèque historique universelle, 2004Man and Society in Nineteenth-Century Realism. Macmillan, 1977France since the Popular Front : Government and People, 1936-1986. Oxford University Press, 1988, 1997Religion, Politics and Preferment in France since 1890. La Belle Époque and its Legacy. Cambridge University Press, 1995, 2002.

Reception

His 1974 book on the events surrounding the 1905 separation of church and state in France was described as "a classic on French history of secularism" and as "still the standard account of the subject".