The British historian Raymond Carr, who died at 96 years, emerged as the teacher of a generation of Spaniards and promoted the knowledge of the history of Spain and Latin America from the UK.
His research, which made up to Spain in the European story, earned him the Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences in 1999 and assured him entry into the British Royal Academy as one of the most respected humanist United Kingdom and the Royal Academy of Spanish History.
Carr, born in 1919 in Bath, a picturesque town in southern England, was professor of Latin American history at Oxford from 1967 to 1968 and ran until 1987, the St. Antony’s College of British university.
respect of the academic community was won in 1966 with the publication of “Spain 1808-1939″, the first part of which later became “Spain 1808-1975″, a work focused on economic aspects and social that has become a classic among historians.
With its new approach to the history of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Carr influenced the next generation of historians.
His compatriot Paul Preston described him as one of their teachers, while during his career he taught, among others, the Israeli writer Shlomo Ben Ami and collaborated with the Spanish Juan Pablo Fusi.
His passion for Spain and its history did not leave him since in the 50 first visited the country during their honeymoon, which held in the town of Torremolinos after its link with Sara Ann Mary Strickland .
Other important titles in his career were “The internationalization of the Spanish civil war” and “Spain, from dictatorship to democracy”, written in collaboration with Fusi, with which he won the Mirror Award in 1979 .
Carr, father of four children, also coordinated and prefaced the volume of the History of Spain-begun in Espasa Calpe by Ramón Menéndez Pidal- dedicated to the Franco era, which was released in late 1996, and collaborated in the collective book “Visions of the Century” (1999).
In 2012, British historian received the Foundation Award for Banco Santander Hispano-British relations for its task to understand Spanish history.
The jury for this award was composed of Preston and the rector of Imperial College London, Keith Oninos, among others, and praised the contribution of Carr through their books and research to the “gradual release bias and partisanship “among historians.
His was a “conciliatory and modern history, which brought its supposed uniqueness Spain, bringing it closer to Europe and Britain,” then said the jury.
Carr’s curiosity led him beyond the history of Spain and Latin America, and also studied Swedish history.
The Spanish scholar was also a connoisseur of Spanish literature and an avid reader Miguel Delibes, whose works serve him to study postwar Spain.
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