Hugh Trevor-Roper

de bene esse: literally, of well-being, morally acceptable but subject to future validation or exception

Blair Worden considers the life and career of Hugh Trevor-Roper, the centenary of whose birth falls early next year. Here you can read some of the influential articles Trevor-Roper wrote in the pages of History Today.

Hugh Trevor-Roper | History Today

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Clarendon’s great ‘History’ was composed largely in exile and published after his death. Hugh Trevor-Roper discusses how the historian had originally intended this great work to be private political advice to the King.