Christopher Clark, Regius Professor of History at the University of Cambridge, discussed the historiography of the origins of the First World War at the University of Iceland on August 27, 2025.

The seminar was sponsored by the EDDA Research Center and the Institute of History at the University of Iceland.

Clark’s seminal work Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914 (London: Allen Lane)—which was published in 2012—stands as a major contribution to this historical debate. He is a leading historian of modern Europe and has published widely on political and diplomatic history. His other works include Iron Kingdom: the Rise and Downfall of Prussia 1600-1947 (Cambridge, MA: Cambridge University Press), which won the Wolfson prize for history, Time and Power: Visions of History in German Politics from the Thirty Years’ War to the Third Reich (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2019), and the most recent one Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848–1849 (London: Penguin 2023).