G. M. Trevelyan
George Macaulay Trevelyan (16 February 1876 – 21 July 1962) was a British historian and academic. He was a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1898 to 1903. He then spent more than twenty years as a full-time author. He returned to the University of Cambridge and was Regius Professor of History from 1927 to 1943. He served as Master of Trinity College from 1940 to 1951. In retirement, he was Chancellor of Durham University.Trevelyan was the third son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, and great-nephew of Thomas Babington Macaulay. He espoused Macaulay's staunch liberal Whig principles in accessible works of literate narrative unfettered by scholarly neutrality, his style becoming old-fashioned in the course of his long and productive career. The historian E. H. Carr considered Trevelyan to be one of the last historians of the Whig tradition.
Many of his writings promoted the Whig Party, an important British political movement from the 17th to the mid-19th centuries, as well as its successor, the Liberal Party. Whigs and Liberals believed the common people had a more positive effect on history than did royalty and that democratic government would bring about steady social progress.
Trevelyan's history is engaged and partisan. Of his Garibaldi trilogy, "reeking with bias", he remarked in his essay "Bias in History": "Without bias, I should never have written them at all. For I was moved to write them by a poetical sympathy with the passions of the Italian patriots of the period, which I retrospectively shared." Provided by Wikipedia
Showing 1 - 20 results of 42 for search 'Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962', query time: 0.25s
Refine Results
-
1by Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962
Published 1919Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
2by Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962
Published 1954Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
3by Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962
Published 1938Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
4by Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962
Published 1979Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
5by Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962
Published 1911Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
6by Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962
Published 1948Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
7by Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962
Published 1942Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
8by Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962
Published 1949Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
9by Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962
Published 1954Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
10by Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962
Published 1953Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
11by Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962
Published 1956Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
12by Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962
Published 1974Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
13by Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962
Published 1913Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
14by Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962
Published 1949Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
15by Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962
Published 1963Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
16by Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962
Published 1940Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
17by Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962
Published 1932Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
18by Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962
Published 1920Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
19by Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962
Published 1906Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading... -
20by Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962
Published 1975Call Number: Loading...
Located:Loading...Book Loading...
Search Tools:
RSS Feed
–
Email Search
Related Subjects
History
Politics and government
Social conditions
Tyler's Insurrection, 1381
Church history
Histoire
Histoire religieuse
Insurrection de Tyler, 1381
Caricatures and cartoons
English literature
Expedition of the Thousand, Italy, 1860
Foreign relations
Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918
History and criticism
Poetry
Prime ministers
Reform
Relations
Social life and customs
Spanish Succession, War of, 1701-1714
World War, 1914-1918