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Hugh Trevor-Roper

Born

in Glanton, Northumberland, England, The United Kingdom

January 15, 1914

Died

January 26, 2003

Genre

History

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Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, was an English historian. He was Regius Professor of Modern History at the University of Oxford.
Trevor-Roper was a polemicist and essayist on a range of historical topics, but particularly England in the 16th and 17th centuries and Nazi Germany. In the view of John Philipps Kenyon, "some of [Trevor-Roper's] short essays have affected the way we think about the past more than other men's books". This is echoed by Richard Davenport-Hines and Adam Sisman in the introduction to One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper (2014): "The bulk of his publications is formidable ... Some of his essays are of Victorian length. All of them reduce large subjects to their essence. Many of them ... have ...more

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Average rating: 3.98 · 6,005 ratings · 592 reviews · 121 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Last Days of Hitler 4.06 avg rating — 1,786 ratings — published 1947 — 110 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hermit Of Peking: The Hidden Life Of Sir Edmund Backhouse 3.79 avg rating — 218 ratings — published 1976 — 25 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Hitler's War Directives, 1939-1945 4.19 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 1966 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The European Witch Craze of the 16th and 17th Centuries 3.51 avg rating — 96 ratings — published 1956 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Crisis of the Seventeenth Century: Religion, the Reformation, and Social Change 4.06 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1967 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rise of Christian Europe 3.48 avg rating — 56 ratings — published 1965 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Invention of Scotland: Myth and History 3.63 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2008 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	History and the Enlightenment 3.78 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 2010 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Archbishop Laud, 1573 - 1645 3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1988 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Renaissance Essays really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 1985 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The working class positively benefited from Hitler`s rule, under which the standard of living was raised till it became the highest in Europe.”
― Hugh Trevor-Roper

tags: hitler

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“The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions, which time and mediocrity can resolve.”
― H.R. Trevor-Roper

tags: hobbes, trevor-roper

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“When the goddess Reason was set up as the idol of a sanguinary dictatorship and the French ‘Enlightenment’ was carried over the continent by military force, the charms of both faded quickly.”
― Hugh Trevor-Roper

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