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Recollections of A. J. P. Taylor*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 September 2008

William Thomas
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I was first taught by A. J. P. Taylor in the Hilary Term of my second year (1957–8) at Magdalen, for what was called English History III, the period from 1685 to 1939. I was not an expert on modern English history, but I had been taught the outlines well at school, and that background together with work on a prize essay the previous long vacation meant that I had a closer knowledge of the period than most undergraduates possess before starting tutorials on it officially, and because Alan Taylor started in 1760 I was soon on familiar ground, and even able to see that I knew more about some episodes than he did.

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Contemporary European History , Volume 3 , Issue 1 , March 1994 , pp. 61 - 72
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1994

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References

1 Costin, W. S. and Watson, J. S.The Law and Working of the Constitution: Documents 1660–1914, 2 vols (London: Black, 1952).Google Scholar

2 But this very doctrine is to be found in Taylor's Introduction to his The Italian Problem in European Diplomacy 1847–1849 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1934)Google Scholar. Compare his later article ‘The Rise and Fall of “Pure” Diplomatic History’, Times Literary Supplement, 6 Jan. 1956.

3 3 vols, Paris 1901–4, trans, by Morris, Mary as The Growth of Philosophic Radicalism (London: Faber, 1928).Google Scholar

4 Historical Journal, Vol. 5, no. 1 (1962), 61–79.

5 Clive, J., Scotch Reviewers: The Edinburgh Review, 1802–1815 (London: Faber, 1957).CrossRefGoogle Scholar

6 The Trouble-Makers: Dissent over Foreign Policy, 1792–1939. The Ford Lectures, 1956 (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1957).Google Scholar

7 The Habsburg Monarchy, 1815–1918 (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1941).Google Scholar

8 Gilbert, M. ed. A Century of Conflict, 1850–1950: Essays for A. J. P. Taylor (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1967).Google Scholar

9 Observer, 28 July 1962. The review starts with Alan's case against ‘puffing’. ‘My practice is the opposite. I hesitate to wound strangers. Old friends, I know, will not mind. J. I. M. Stewart and I have been close friends for nearly 40 years. He thinks me brash. I find him precious. This book confirms my judgment …’.