Trevor-Roper, Hugh Redwald, Baron Dacre of Glanton (1914–2003)

Noted for his style and enjoyment of controversy, Trevor-Roper saw history as an art and the imagination as the key to understanding it. Thus he ranged across a variety of areas, making important interventions on topics as disparate as Adolf Hitler and the Enlightenment.

Forenames:

Hugh Redwald

Surname:

Trevor-Roper

Title:

Baron Dacre of Glanton

Dates:

1914–2003

Institutions:

University of Cambridge (Peterhouse)
University of Oxford (Oriel College)

Significant posts:

Master, University of Cambridge (Peterhouse)
Regius Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford (Oriel College)

Influences:

Braudel, Fernand

Contemporaries:

Stone, Lawrence
Taylor, Alan John Percivale

Influenced:

Worden, Blair

Themes:

Sixteenth century
Seventeenth century
Twentieth century German history
Historiography

Biographies:

Blackwell Dictionary of Historians
Encyclopedia of Historians and Historical Writing
Interviews with Historians
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

Obituaries:

Guardian
Times

Bibliography

• Bibliography from Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH)

Personal papers

• National Register of Archives

Significant publications

• Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Last Days of Hitler (London, 1947)
  
• Hugh Trevor-Roper, 'The general crisis of the seventeenth century', Past and Present, 16 (1959), 31–64

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