Given the question: Facts: - death place: london , england - caption: taylor in 1977 - honorific suffix: fba - birth name: alan john percivale taylor - spouse: margaret eve crosland -lrb- 1951 -- 1974 ; divorced -rrb- Eva adams haraszti -lrb- 1976 -- 1990 ; his death -rrb- -lrb- 1931 -- 1951 ; divorced -rrb- - occupation: historian - opponent: hugh trevor-roper - awards: fellow of the british academy - birth date: 25 march 1906 - name: a. j. p. taylor - citizenship: british - nationality: english - image: alan john percivale taylor 1977.jpg - birth place: birkdale , lancashire , england - alma mater: oriel college , oxford Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of a. j. p. taylor .
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alan john percivale '' a. j. p. '' taylor -lrb- 25 march 1906 -- 7 september 1990 -rrb- was an english 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 '' .