G. M. Trevelyan

Trevelyan photographed by [[George Charles Beresford]] in 1926 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
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    Historia política de Inglaterra. by Trevelyan, George Macaulay

    Published 1943
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    Historia social de Inglaterra / by Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962

    Published 1946
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    La educación de Lord Macaulay, según sus memorias y sus cartas últimas / by Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962

    Published 1858
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    British history in the nineteenth century and after (1782-1919) / by Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962

    Published 1960
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    A shortened history of England / by Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962

    Published 1987
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    A shortened history of England / by Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962

    Published 1979
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    History of England / by Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962

    Published 1952
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    Illustrated English social history / by Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962

    Published 1964
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    History of England / by Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962

    Published 1958
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    Historia social de Inglaterra / by Trevelyan, George MAcaulay, 1876-1962

    Published 1946
    Book
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    Historia política de Inglaterra / by Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962

    Published 1943
    Book
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    G.M. Trevelyan. by Plumb, J. H.

    Published 1951
    Other Authors: “…Trevelyan, George Macaulay…”
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    Vida, memorias y cartas / by Macaulay, Thomas Babington, 1800-1859

    Published 1900
    Other Authors: “…Trevelyan, George Macaulay, 1876-1962…”
    Texto completo del volumen 2 [Consulta: 2020/10/23]
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