Martin Clark (30 September 1938 - August 5, 2017) was a British historian noted for his work on modern Italy. After obtaining his degree at Cambridge, Clark gained his PhD at Birkbeck College. In 1965 he was appointed assistant lecturer at the University of Edinburgh. He remained there at the politics department until his retirement in 2001. Clark published a number of books, but is best known for Modern Italy, 1871 to the Present first published by Longman in 1984. Described as 'authoritative' it was revised twice. For the last two years of his life, Clark suffered from Parkinson’s disease.