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George Macaulay Trevelyan

Born

in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, The United Kingdom

February 16, 1876

Died

July 21, 1962

Genre

Nonfiction, History

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George Macaulay Trevelyan, OM, CBE, FRS, FBA, was an English historian. Trevelyan was the third son of Sir George Trevelyan, 2nd Baronet, 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. Contemporary 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 aspect of British politics from the 1600s to the mid-1800s, and of its successor, the Liberal Party. Whigs and Liberals believed the common people had a more positive effect on history than did royalty ...more

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George Macaulay Trevelyan’s books

Average rating: 3.83 · 801 ratings · 116 reviews · 189 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Shortened History of England 3.89 avg rating — 161 ratings — published 1942 — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	English Social History: A Survey of Six Centuries - Chaucer to Queen Victoria 3.81 avg rating — 112 ratings — published 1942 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	History of England Vol.2: The Tudors and the Stuart Era 4.10 avg rating — 81 ratings — published 1926 — 74 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The English Revolution, 1688-1689 3.61 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1938 — 22 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	England Under the Stuarts by George Macaulay Trevelyan, John Morrill (Introduction) 3.60 avg rating — 50 ratings — 97 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Garibaldi and the Thousand: May, 1860 3.88 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1909 — 104 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Garibaldi's Defense of the Roman Republic 1848 to 1849 really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 35 ratings — published 1907 — 150 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Garibaldi and the Making of Italy: June - November, 1860 3.79 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 1911 — 95 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Illustrated English Social History: 1 3.89 avg rating — 27 ratings — 41 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	History of England, Volume 1: From the Earliest Times to the Reformation 3.56 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1952 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Garibaldi (3 books)
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England under Queen Anne (4 books)
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Quotes by George Macaulay Trevelyan (?)

“Education...has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.”
― George Macaulay Trevelyan

tags: education, history, nonfiction, reading, social-commentary

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“The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow.”
― G. M. Trevelyan

tags: dead-souls, historical-fiction, history, past-lives

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“The dead were and are not. Their place knows them no more and is ours today... The poetry of history lies in the quasi-miraculous fact that once, on this earth, once, on this familiar spot of ground, walked other men and women, as actual as we are today, thinking their own thoughts, swayed by their own passions, but now all gone, one generation vanishing into another, gone as utterly as we ourselves shall shortly be gone, like ghosts at cockcrow"
-- "Autobiography of an Historian", An Autobiography and Other Essays (1949).”
― G. M. Trevelyan

tags: history, trevelyan

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