A. J. P. Taylor, 'Laughter at No. 10', The Observer (9 January 1966), p. 24
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It is difficult to think of a Foreign Secretary with a more successful record.
— A. J. P. Taylor on Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston
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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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