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A.J.P. Taylor, 6 December 1984 The study of English political history has suffered a grievous loss with the death of Stephen Koss in New York on 25 October last. Though only 44, hardly more than half my age, Stephen had already established himself as an authority of the first rank on British political history in the 19th and 20th centuries.
Alan John Percivale Taylor 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. His combination of academic rigour and popular appeal led the historian Richard Overy to describe him as "the Macaulay of our age". In a 2011 poll by History Today magazine, he was named the fourth most important historian of the previous 60 years.
A. J. P. Taylor began his career as a historian as a pupil of the generation of British historians who had reached maturity well before 1914. In his youth the history of nineteenth-century Europe was still a field in which little teaching and research had been. undertaken in the major British universities.
A.J.P. Taylor in Budapest at a TV interview in 1985 In addition to his academic work, Taylor had a significant broadcasting career, writing for newspapers, and appearing on radio and television. The first ‘Telly-Don,’ Taylor was a pioneer in the broadcasting of history on TV and his lectures, delivered without notes, were very popular.
May 15, 1976 · A.J.P.Taylor's thesis is that the conflict between a super-national dynasty and the national principle had to be fought to the finish. The book opens with the seventeenth and eighteenth century background, especially of the founding principles of the dynasty under the empress Maria-Theresa and the monarchical reforms of her heir Joseph.
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A. J. P. Taylor. Alan John Percivale Taylor FBA (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was a British historian who specialised in 19th- and 20th-century European diplomacy. He was a journalist and a broadcaster. His television lectures made him famous. He was called "the Macaulay of our age". [1] He was born in Southport. His parents were pacifists.
A.J.P. Taylor has 111 books on Goodreads with 19133 ratings. A.J.P. Taylor’s most popular book is The Origins of the Second World War.
