Editing Manning Clark (section)

{{Short description|Australian historian (1915–1991)}}
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{{Use Australian English|date=September 2012}}
{{Infobox academic
| name = Manning Clark
| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=AUS|size=100|AC|FAHA}}
| image = Manning Clark.jpg
| imagesize = 350px
| alt = 
| caption = Clark in his study, circa 1988
| birth_name = Charles Manning Hope Clark
| birth_date = {{birth date|1915|03|03|df=yes}}
| birth_place = [[Sydney]], [[New South Wales]], Australia
| death_date = {{death date and age|1991|05|23|1915|03|03|df=yes}}
| death_place = [[Canberra]], [[Australian Capital Territory]], Australia
| era = 
| region = 
| nationality = Australian
| citizenship = 
| workplaces = {{ubl|[[Australian National University]] (1960–1974)|[[University of Melbourne]] (1944–1960)}}
| alma_mater = {{ubl|[[University of Melbourne]]|[[University of Oxford]]}}
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| notable_students = {{ubl|[[Frank Crean]]|[[Geoffrey Serle]]|[[Ken Inglis]]|[[Geoffrey Blainey]]|[[Helen Hughes (economist)|Helen Hughes]]|[[Humphrey McQueen]]}}
| school_tradition = 
| main_interests = Australian history
| principal_ideas = 
| major_works = ''A History of Australia''
| awards = {{ubl|[[Fellowship of Australian Writers|FAW]] (Vic) [[Moomba Festival|Moomba]] Book Award (1969)|Henry Lawson Arts Award (1969)|[[ALS Gold Medal|Australian Literature Society Gold Medal]] (1970)|[[The Age Book of the Year#Non-fiction Award|''The Age'' Non-Fiction Award]] (1974)|[[Companion of the Order of Australia]] (1975)|[[New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards#Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction|Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction]] (1979)|[[Australian of the Year]] (1980)}}
| influences = {{ubl|[[Thomas Carlyle]]|[[Edward Gibbon]]|[[Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay|Thomas Macaulay]]}}
| influenced = {{ubl|[[Geoffrey Serle]]|[[Lyndall Ryan]]}}
| footnotes = 
| spouse = [[Dymphna Clark]]
| children = Andrew, Axel, Benedict, Katerina, Rowland, Sebastian
| education = [[Melbourne Grammar School]]
}}
'''Charles Manning Hope Clark''', {{postnominals|country=AUS|AC|FAHA}} (3 March 1915 – 23 May 1991) was an Australian [[historian]] and the author of the best-known general history of Australia, his six-volume ''A History of Australia'', published between 1962 and 1987. He has been described as "Australia's most famous historian",<ref>Graeme Davidson and others, ''The Oxford Companion to Australian History'', Oxford University Press 1998, 128</ref> but his work has also been the target of criticism, particularly from [[conservatism|conservatives]] and [[classical liberalism|classical liberals]].