A.J.P. Taylor
Subtitle: radical historian of Europe
By: Chris Wrigley.
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 439
ISBN-13: 9781860642869
Subjects: Taylor, A. J. P. -- 1906-1990; Historians -- Great Britain -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
Description: "A scholar gentleman in the old style; a northern non-conforming radical; an academic steeped in Oxford traditions; a late 20th-century media personality; one of the most outstanding historians of his age: A.J.P. Taylor was all of these. He wrote about traditional historical subjects in a traditional manner and took narrative history to new heights and was equally at home with a critical academic, as with a vast popular audience. This biographical study of A.J.P. Taylor includes details of Taylor's privileged and cosseted childhood, the effect of his close but combative and stimulating family, the dissenting and nonconformist tradition, and his time as teacher, broadcaster journalist and historian. It attempts to evaluate how far he fulfilled his aim and conviction as to the importance of history and its place at the heart of national consciousness."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-420) and index.