A. J. P. Taylor, review of Debates with Historians in The Guardian, quoted in G. R. Elton, Reformation Europe, 1517—1559 (1963), p. 350
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His volume of essays is the most important survey of general historical problems that has appeared for many years... Geyl is one of the few living men whose writings make us feel that Western civilisation still exists.
— A. J. P. Taylor on Pieter Geyl
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About A. J. P. Taylor
Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was a British historian, journalist, broadcaster and scholar. His approachably written and sometimes contentiously revisionist studies of 19th and early 20th-century subjects brought academic history to a new audience.
About A. J. P. Taylor
Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was a British historian, journalist, broadcaster and scholar. His approachably written and sometimes contentiously revisionist studies of 19th and early 20th-century subjects brought academic history to a new audience.
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