Search results
2 days ago · After briefer discussions of some of their predecessors, he concentrates on six of the college’s History tutors in the twentieth century: Sir Keith Feiling, Sir John Masterman, Sir Roy Harrod, Patrick Gordon Walker (Baron Gordon-Walker), Hugh Trevor-Roper (Lord Dacre), and Robert Blake (Lord Blake).
2 days ago · The following text was presented by Tim Bouverie to the 2022 International Churchill Conference in Kansas City, Missouri.. Practically alone among that bunch of thugs, racists, nihilists, and parvenus who made up the senior coterie of the Third Reich, Joseph Goebbels was, as the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper appreciated, an intellectual or, at least within that crude milieu, the closest ...
4 days ago · As the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper had written a decade earlier, “Perhaps in the future there will be some African history to teach. But at the present there is none, or very little; there is only the history of Europeans in Africa. The rest is largely darkness …
2 days ago · Erasmian Reformation: Some historians such as Edward Gibbon and Hugh Trevor-Roper have even claimed an "'Erasmianism after Erasmus,' a secret stream which meandered to and fro across the Catholic/Protestant divide, creating oases of rational thought impartially on either side."
20 hours ago · Dennis O'Driscoll was an Irish poet, essayist, critic, and editor. Regarded as one of the best European poets of his time, Eileen Battersby considered him "the lyric equivalent of William Trevor" and a better poet "by far" than Raymond Carver. Gerard Smyth regarded him as "one of poetry's true champions and certainly its most prodigious archivist.
5 days ago · — The ancient family of Lowther, who, from a remote period, had been seated at Lowther, in the adjoining county of Westmorland, appear to have been first connected with this county in the reign of Edward I. when Sir Hugh Lowther, the King's Attorney General, was possessed of the manor of Wythorp, and purchased Newton-Regny of Robert Burnell ...
20 hours ago · Hugh R. Trevor-Roper. from $8.19. Race in North America: Origin And Evolution of a Worldview. Audrey Smedley. from $43.29. Culture Sketches: Case Studies in Anthropology.
