| Date of Birth | 11-November-1926 |
| Place of Birth |
Hanley, Staffordshire (United Kingdom, England, Staffordshire) |
| Nationality | United Kingdom |
| Also know as | Harold James Perkin, Harold J. Perkin |
| Harold James Perkin was a British social historian and founder of the Social History Society. Perkin was born in Hanley, Staffordshire to humble origins and attended Hanley High School and then obtained a scholarship to Jesus College, Cambridge from 1945, gaining a starred First Class degree in 1948 followed by National Service in the RAF. Rejected by his Cambridge college to study for a PhD, he commenced an extramural history teaching post from 1950 at Manchester University. | |
Awards by Harold Perkin |
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