Alan John Percivale Taylor was born in Lancashire #OnThisDay in 1906, becoming one of the leading historians of his generation; #AJPTaylor had complicated, controversial & somewhat contradictory views but his analyses offered profound insights about European #history
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English historian who specialised in 19th- and 20th-century European diplomacy, A. J. P. Taylor wrote, "Nothing is inevitable until it happens." #AJPTaylor
Let's read the Bible together in the next year. Today, our passages are Deuteronomy 4:1-49; Luke 6:39–7:10; Psalm 68:1-18; and Proverbs 11:28. #BibleinaYear #BibleReadings #TheMessage #Numbers #Luke #Psalms #AJPTaylor
St. Catherine of Siena (1347), Joachim Murat (1767), Arturo Toscanini (1867), Béla Bartok (1881), #AJPTaylor (1906), David Lean (1908), Flannery O'Connor (1925), Anita Bryant (1940), Aretha Franklin (1942), Elton John (1947), Marcia Cross (1962) & Naftali Bennett (1972) were born #OnThisDay...
“Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.”
🌏 #AJPTaylor, English historian (The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918, Origins of the Second World War), was #BOTD 25 March 1906.
#firstworldwar #worldwar1 #ajptaylor #history #historyteaching #remembranceday #battleofthesomme #thegreatwar
Reliving my teenage years and watching #AJPTaylor 's 'prepared but extemporary' TV lectures. For years I thought this was miraculous rather than a party trick. Still, it was the mode by which I revised my A Levels: genuinely extemporary lectures to myself!
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"There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting."
✒️ #AJPTaylor, English historian (The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918, Origins of the Second World War), #DOTD 7 September 1990. #History
Happy Birthday A. J. P. Taylor. (RIP) #HappyBirthdayAJPTaylor #AJPTaylor #Birthday #restinpeace #Legend #Legends
St. Catherine of Siena (1347), Arturo Toscanini (1867), Béla Bartok (1881), #AJPTaylor (1906), David Lean (1908), Magda Olivero (1910), Simone Signoret (1921), Flannery O'Connor (1925), Aretha Franklin (1942), Elton John (1947) & Naftali Bennett (1972) were born #OnThisDay...
“Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.”
🌏 #AJPTaylor, English historian (The Struggle for Mastery in Europe 1848–1918, Origins of the Second World War), was #BOTD 25 March 1906.
Seeing this and wondering what it must have been like to have lived through two world wars by the age of 40. #AJPTaylor
"There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment & nothing more corruption"~AJP Taylor
Arturo Toscanini (1867), Béla Bartok (1881), #AJPTaylor (1906), David Lean (1908), Magda Olivero (1910), Simone Signoret (1921), Flannery O'Connor (1925), Gloria Steinem, Anita Bryant (1940), Aretha Franklin (1942), Elton John (1947) & Naftali Bennett (1972) were born #OnThisDay...
A.J.P. Taylor's How Wars End is free on Kindle for a couple of days. #AJPTaylor #Kindle #ebook #freeebook #history
