biography
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Trevor-Roper, Hugh Redwald, Baron Dacre of Glanton
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| lived:
| (1914–2003)
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| biography:
| Historian and controversialist, born in Glanton, Northumberland, NE England, UK. He studied at Oxford, where he became a fellow of Oriel College and professor of modern history (1957–80). His The Last Days of Hitler (1947) won international fame for a vivid reconstruction based on research on behalf of British forces in occupied Germany. He wrote a wide range of books and essays, including The Rise of Christian Europe (1965) and The Philby Affair (1968), and edited the Goebbels diaries (1978). In the 1980s he received publicity for championing the authenticity of the ‘Hitler diaries’, until their fraudulence was revealed. He was Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge (1980–7). |
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