I’m glad that Jonathan Jones liked AJP Taylor’s The First World War: An Illustrated History (History and all its grisly facts are worth more than the illusion of memory, 1 November). I collected the ...

Review: Adam Sisman: Hugh Trevor-Roper - The Biography ADAM Sisman wrote a solid biography of the exuberant, Leftish historian AJP Taylor and here 16 years later is an equally sturdy biography of ...

Oxford historian AJP Taylor explores the origins of some of the most important modern wars, in his iconic series of television talks for the BBC from 1977. One of the first to popularise history ...

In one of the best and most moving parliamentary speeches hefo ever made, Winston Churchill said that it was not always given to us to foresee the unfolding course of events. "In one phase men seem to ...

Oxford historian AJP Taylor explores the origins of some of the most important modern wars, in his iconic series of television talks for the BBC from 1977. One of the first to popularise history ...