An Oxford Quarrel: Evelyn Waugh and Hugh Trevor-Roper.
The Old Rectory is the home of Lord Dacre, which is what Hugh Trevor-Roper has become. He has also become notorious as the man who authenticated the Hitler diaries. Standing under a grim porch, I press the bell. Eventually he opens the front door, a more ethereal figure these days, but still active (he’s just back from America) and strikingly.
Hugh Trevor-Roper was one of the most gifted historians of the twentieth century. His scholarly interests ranged widely - from the Puritan Revolution to the Scottish Enlightenment. Yet he was also fascinated by the events of his own lifetime and wrote widely on issues of espionage and intelligence, as well as maintaining a fascination with the.
This Project is now complete. Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, who became a life peer as Lord Dacre of Glanton in 1989, was born on 15 January 1914. The son of a country doctor in Northumberland, he was educated at Charterhouse and then at Christ Church, Oxford, where he read first for a degree in Classics and then for one in History.
Taylor and Trevor-Roper. By HUGH THOMAS. I ,s-r week, Mr. A. J. P. Taylor gave his last I lecture at Oxford—just over two years since, in April, 1961, he published perhaps his most controversial book, The Origins of the Second World War.
Noted for his style and enjoyment of controversy, Trevor-Roper saw history as an art and the imagination as the key to understanding it. Thus he ranged across a variety of areas, making important interventions on topics as disparate as Adolf Hitler and the Enlightenment.
WRITINGS OF HUGH TREVOR-ROPER The bibliography supplied below is supplement by an index to it and by a list of his posthumous publications. Links: Index Posthumous Publications ----- This bibliography, compiled by Richard Foster of Corpus Christi College Oxford, does not pretend to be definitive or complete. Proposals for amendments or additions should please be sent to.
An Honourable Englishman: The Life of Hugh Trevor-Roper by Adam Sisman Random House, 672 pp. It is worth reading for two reasons. First, it is a model of the biography form.
Bio: Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, was a historian of early modern Britain and Nazi Germany. He was Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. He was Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford.
Hugh Trevor-Roper, Lord Dacre (1914-), is retired Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford. Among his works are The Last Days of Hitler, The Gentry, 1540-1640, The Rise of Christian Europe, The Plunder of the Arts in the Seventeenth Century, Princes and Artists: Patronage and Ideology at Four Hapsburg Courts, 1517?1633, and The Hermit of Peking.
The good faeries made Hugh Trevor-Roper, later Lord Dacre of Glanton, a brilliant historian, a gifted classicist, an elegant stylist, an engaging raconteur, and an effective servant of his country.
Hugh Trevor-Roper. Hugh Trevor-Roper, the son of a doctor, was born in Northumberland on 15th January, 1914. Educated at Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford, he became a research fellow of Merton College in 1937. His first book, Archbishop Laud, was published three years later.
Irritable, cocky, flippant and brilliant, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Lord Dacre (1914-2003), was arguably the most naturally gifted historian of his generation. Before 1983, he was famous for his repeated.
Adam Sismans biography of English historian Hugh Trevor-Roper harkens us back to a time when the writing and teaching of history mattered. From the 1930s through the 1980s the world was highly ideological, and the interpretation of even the distant past was hotly contested as being intimately relevant to contemporary events surrounding the rise of first fascism and then communism.
