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  Montague Millennium References
Check-List or Brief Catalogue of the Library of Henry E. Huntington [English Literature to 1640], Compiled and printed by George Watson Cole, New York, 1919.
England in the Age of Wycliffe, George Macaulay Trevelyan, originally Longmans, Green, and Co, London, 1900, also AMS Press, NY, NY, 1975.
England Under the Stuarts, George Macaulay Trevelyan, Methuen and Co, London, 1904, 1949, 1965.
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  George Macaulay Trevelyan
George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876 — 1962) was an English historian and son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan[?].
Trevelyan lectured at Cambridge until 1903 at which point he left academic life.
Trevelyan declined the Presidency of the British Academy[?] but served as Chancellor of Durham University from 1950 to 1958.
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 Charles Trevelyan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Charles Trevelyan, the son of George Trevelyan, the Liberal MP, was born in London on 28th October 1870.
Trevelyan became a member of the Fabian Society and began to develop socialistic views on social reform.
However, Trevelyan's Education Bill, that included the measure of raising the school-leaving age to fifteen, was rejected by the House of Lords.
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 Print Europe: About Julian Trevelyan
Julian was the grandson of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, Liberal politician and writer and nephew of the historian George Macaulay Trevelyan.
Trevelyan was appointed as Tutor of Engraving at the Royal College of Art, eventually becoming Head of the Etching Department where he influenced a new generation of printmakers including the young David Hockney.
Trevelyan was one of the founder members of the Printmakers' Council in London (elected President in 1973).
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 The Great History Books and Their Authors.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Known as a Whig writer, Macaulay's style is the perfection of clearness, not an ambiguous sentence is to be found throughout his works, brilliant language; Thackeray referred to him as a master with a "prodigious memory and vast learning...
(1876-1962): § Son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan, the younger Trevelyan was, of course, educated at Cambridge: eventually he was to became a professor of History at Cambridge.
George Otto was educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge.
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 G. M. Trevelyan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
George Macaulay Trevelyan CBE OM (February 16, 1876 – July 21, 1962), was an English historian, son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan and great-nephew of Thomas Babington Macaulay, whose staunch liberal Whig principles he espoused in accessible works of literate narrative avoiding a consciously dispassionate analysis, that became old-fashioned during his long and productive career.
After attending Harrow School, where he specialized in history, Trevelyan studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was one of the "Cambridge Apostles" and founder of the still existing "Lake Hunt", a "hound and hares" chase where both hounds and hares are human.
The psuedonym Trevanian used by author Rodney Whitaker in some of his spy novels, was based on the name Trevelyan.
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 History in Review - England Under the Stuarts
Trevelyan also looks at the situation of the Catholics in England during Cromwell's rule, as well as the return of the Jews to England during this period.
Trevelyan also looks at the reasons why Cromwell's son was unable to retain power, how and why the Restoration occurred, and the effects that the reign of Charles II had on the country.
Trevelyan takes a multifaceted approach, looking not only at the political, but also the social and cultural aspects of the England during this tumultuous era.
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 AllRefer.com - George Macaulay Trevelyan (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
George Macaulay Trevelyan 1876–1962, English historian; son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan.
Educated at Cambridge, he became professor of modern history there in 1927 and was master of Trinity College from 1940 to 1951.
He is perhaps better known for his one-volume History of England (1926), his British History in the Nineteenth Century (1922), and England under the Stuarts (1907).
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 George Macaulay Trevelyan Biography | Encyclopedia of World Biography
The English historian George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876-1962) is known for his defense and illustration of history as a literary art.
George Macaulay Trevelyan was born at Welcombe near Stratford-on-Avon on Feb. 16, 1876, the son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan.
Trevelyan's History of England (1926) quickly became one of the best-selling textbooks of its age.
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 Sir George Otto Trevelyan — FactMonster.com
Trevelyan, Sir George Otto, 1838–1928, British historian and politician.
George II I and praise for the American Revolutionary leaders, an attitude that contributed to the great popularity of his work in the United States, but that detracted from its objectivity.
George Macaulay Trevelyan - Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876–1962, English historian; son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan.
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 Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir George Otto Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet (20 July 1838 - 17 August 1928) was a British statesman and author and the only son of Sir Charles Trevelyan.
When the first Gladstone ministry was formed, in December 1868, Trevelyan was appointed Civil Lord of the Admiralty, but resigned in July 1870 on a point of conscience connected with the government Education Bill.
He advocated a sweeping reform of the army, including the abolition of the purchase of commissions, and both in and out of parliament he was the foremost supporter for many years of the extension of the county franchise.
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 Trevelyan 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Trevlyan was the son of George Otto Trevelyan (q.v.) and, like him, belongs to the great tradition of historians in the North East.
Trevelyan's works include remarkable books on Garibaldi, for which he walked every mile of the great man's campaigns.
Trevelyan's view of literature was that it should not be a set of intellectual conundrums: 'It is joy, joy in our inmost heart.' He was well known for his gleaming spectacles, his famous boots, his enthusiasm and his Homeric laughter.
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 George Macaulay Trevelyan — Infoplease.com
"Those historical laurels which once graced my brow are now in their wane": Catharine Macaulay's last years and legacy.(Critical Essay)...
"I am her majesty's subject": Prince George of Denmark and the transformation of the English male consort.(introduction in French)(Biography)...
The unhistoric in history: George Eliot's challenge to Victorian historiography.
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 TIME.com: Haunted Historian -- Sep. 19, 1949 -- Page 1
To his classmates at Harrow, George Macaulay Trevelyan seemed, as he himself tells it, like "a 'swot' of the worst kind.
The son of Historian Sir George Otto Trevelyan and grandnephew of Lord Macaulay, young George grew up in a rambling mansion in Shakespeare's Warwickshire.
By that time, Trevelyan was married (to the daughter of Mrs.
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 George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876-1962), Historian; son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan
George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876-1962), Historian; son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan
A great-nephew of the historian Lord Macaulay, in his time Trevelyan was the most widely read and admired of living British historians, a master of narrative and descriptive style.
His reputation rests largely on a trilogy on Garibaldi (1907-11), England Under Queen Anne (1930-4) and English Social History (1944).
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 Faculty of History: Seminars and Events: Public Lectures: The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures
Faculty of History: Seminars and Events: Public Lectures: The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures
The George Macaulay Trevelyan Lectures are given every two years, on any historical subject.
The many distinguished Trevelyan Lecturers have included E.H. Carr in 1961 (What is History, 1964), Arnaldo Momigliano in 1973 (Alien Wisdom, 1990), Keith Thomas in 1979 (Man and the Natural World, 1983), Giles Constable in 1985 (The Reformation of the Twelfth Century, 1996), and Christopher Browning in 1995 (Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers, 1999).
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 George Macaulay Trevelyan Quotes
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Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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 Garibaldi's Defence of the Roman Republic
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1876-1962, English historian; son of Sir George Otto Trevelyan.
Other works include biographies of John Bright (1913), Lord Charles Grey (1920), his father, Sir George Otto Trevelyan (1932), and Lord Grey of Fallodon (1937); The English Revolution, 1688-1689 (1938); English Social History (1942; pub.
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 Sir George Otto Trevelyan — Infoplease.com
See biography by his son, G. Trevelyan (1932).
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 History / History- Social & Commercial., Used, Rare and Out-Of-Print Books
Captain Swing by E J. Hobsbawm & George Rude.
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 Harper's Magazine Archive (1860)
Travels in the regions of the upper and lower Amoor, and the Russian acquisitions on the confines of India and China (Book)
Travels in the regions of the upper and lower Amoor, and the Russian acquisitions on the confines of India and China (Book) by Atkinson, Thomas Witlam
The origin of species by means of natural selection; or, the preservation of favored races in the struggle for life (Book) by Darwin, Charles
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