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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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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'.
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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Jul 7, 2024 · 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.
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.
The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918 is a scholarly history book by the English historian A. J. P. Taylor and was part of "The Oxford History of Modern Europe", published by the Clarendon Press in Oxford in October 1954.
