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Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was a British historian who specialised in 19th- and 20th-century European diplomacy. Both a journalist and a broadcaster, he became well known to millions through his television lectures.
A.J.P. Taylor (born March 25, 1906, Birkdale, Lancashire, Eng.—died Sept. 7, 1990, London) was a British historian and journalist noted for his lectures on history and for his prose style. Taylor attended Oriel College, Oxford, graduating with first-class honours in 1927.
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A.J.P.Taylor attacks the view that Germany deliberately sought war in 1914 and argues that military railway timetables were the crucial factor.
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May 3, 2016 · A.J. P. Taylor: a nonconforming radical historian. Taylorian twist in this. There was a strong popularist strand in much that he wrote, with Taylor on the side of the good soldier Svejk, Old Bill (Bruce Bairnsfather's cartoon creation) or, more generally, 'the British people'.
Troublemaker: The Life and History of A.J.P. Taylor – Reviews In History. See Author's Response. 'We historians are dull creatures', A.J.P. Taylor once wrote, 'and women sometimes notice this.' One woman who obviously thought Taylor far from dull was Kathy Burk, the last of his postgraduate students.
Sep 8, 1990 · Born on March 25, 1906, in Southport, Lancashire, Mr. Taylor was the son of a cotton manufacturer who prided himself on his socialist beliefs and his nonconformism, inclinations that the young Mr...
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The Origins of the Second World War is a non-fiction book by the English historian A. J. P. Taylor, examining the causes of World War II. It was first published in 1961 by Hamish Hamilton . Origins. Taylor had previously written The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918. As he later wrote in his autobiography:
