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A. J. P. Taylor

1906 - 1990

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Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was an English historian who specialised in 19th- and 20th-century European diplomacy. Both a journalist and a broadcaster, he became well known to millions through his television lectures. His combination of academic rigour and popular appeal led the historian Richard Overy to describe him as "the Macaulay of our age". In a 2011 poll by History Today magazine, he was named the fourth most important historian of the previous 60 years. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. A. J. P. Taylor is the 331st most popular historian (down from 308th in 2019), the 3,049th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,640th in 2019) and the 33rd most popular British Historian.

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Among HISTORIANS

Among historians, A. J. P. Taylor ranks 331 out of 561. Before him are Edwin O. Reischauer, Stepanos Asoghik, Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, Ghazar Parpetsi, Al-Nuwayri, and Johannes Meursius. After him are Élisabeth Roudinesco, Mikhail Pogodin, Jean Delumeau, Charles Forbes René de Montalembert, İlber Ortaylı, and Joseph-François Michaud.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, A. J. P. Taylor ranks 220. Before him are František Svoboda, Laurens van der Post, Alexander Gelfond, Juan Modesto, Bernhard Britz, and V. J. Sukselainen. After him are Friz Freleng, René David, Ed Hamm, Harri Larva, Hermione Baddeley, and Wolfgang Staudte. Among people deceased in 1990, A. J. P. Taylor ranks 157. Before him are Robert Cummings, Sabicas, Merab Mamardashvili, Marie-Dominique Chenu, Aleksandra Chudina, and Armand Hammer. After him are Joel McCrea, Michael Oakeshott, René David, Gerhard Schrader, James M. Gavin, and Dodo Abashidze.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, A. J. P. Taylor ranks 3,050 out of 8,785. Before him are Patricia Knatchbull, 2nd Countess Mountbatten of Burma (1924), Henry Ireton (1611), Henry Taylor (1885), Rio Ferdinand (1978), Ian Hart (1964), and Martin Donnelly (1964). After him are Tom Ellis (1978), Phil Taylor (1960), Peter Banks (1947), Graham Hancock (1950), Hayley Mills (1946), and Dorothy Garrod (1892).

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Among HISTORIANS In United Kingdom

Among historians born in United Kingdom, A. J. P. Taylor ranks 33. Before him are George Buchanan (1506), Quentin Skinner (1940), Agnes Arber (1879), Gerald of Wales (1146), Paul Kennedy (1945), and Christopher Hill (1912). After him are Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (1810), Edward Granville Browne (1862), Hugh Trevor-Roper (1914), John Keegan (1934), George Finlay (1799), and Francis Godwin (1562).

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