The things that really matter have nothing to do with politics. Love between friends. Good books. The beauties of nature. - A. J. P. Taylor

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The things that really matter have nothing to do with politics. Love between friends. Good books. The beauties of nature.

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About A. J. P. Taylor

Alan John Percivale Taylor (25 March 1906 – 7 September 1990) was a British historian, journalist, broadcaster and scholar. His approachably written and sometimes contentiously revisionist studies of 19th and early 20th-century subjects brought academic history to a new audience.

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Native Name: Alan John Percivale Taylor

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