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Hugh Trevor-Roper

Birth date: January 15, 1914

Died: January 26, 2003

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Hermit of Peking: The Hidden Life of Sir Edmund Backhouse - Hugh Trevor-Roper

The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Boxed Set) - Edward Gibbon, Hugh Trevor-Roper

The Invention of Tradition (Canto) - Eric J. Hobsbawm, Terrence Ranger, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Prys Morgan, David Cannadine, Bernard S. Cohn

History and the Enlightenment - Hugh Trevor-Roper, John Robertson

The Wartime Journals - Hugh Trevor-Roper, Richard Davenport-Hines

Four Gothic Kings: The Turbulent History of Medieval England and the Plantagenet Kings (1216-1377 Henry III, Edward I, Edward II, Edward III Se) - Elizabeth Hallam, Hugh Trevor-Roper

The Rise of Christian Europe (Library of World Civilization) - Hugh Trevor-Roper

The Decline & Fall of the Roman Empire & Other Selected Writings - Edward Gibbon, Hugh Trevor-Roper

The Golden Age of Europe: From Elizabeth...

The Chronicles of the Wars of the Roses: The turbulent years of the last Plantagenets, seven kings from Richard II in 1377 to Richard III in 1485 - Elizabeth Hallam, Hugh Trevor-Roper

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mattries37315 rated it

5 years ago

text The History of England (abridged)

The progress of history is ever moving forward, away from superstition and autocracy towards free-thought and greater liberty, at least that what Lord Macaulay believed. In his The History of England (from the Accession of James the Second), Macaulay brings forth “the Whig interpretation of history...

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Wyvernfriend Reads rated it

12 years ago

text The Invention of Tradition (Canto)

Not the worst of it's kind but there were parts that just dragged. This is a selection of essays about the invention of tradition, largely in the 19th Century. Starts with an introduction by Eric Hobsbawm which is pretty dry. The enthusiasm that Hugh Trevor-Roper has for his topic of Highland Trad...

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Musings of a Book Addict rated it

13 years ago

text Wars of the Roses

Amazing and gorgeous images but the history is DENSE. You have to be really passionate about this time period in European history to get through this. I did really enjoyed the more mundane chapters about what every day life was like in this time period, but I really could not get into the intense de...

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Wyvernfriend Reads rated it

16 years ago

text The Invention of Tradition (Canto)

A mixed bunch of studies which seemed to get less and less penetrable as you go on.

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