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The male clerk with his quill pen and copper-plate handwriting had gone for good. The female short-hand typist took his place. It was a decisive moment in women's emancipation.
A. J. P. Taylor
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A. J. P. Taylor
Age: 84 †
Born: 1906
Born: March 25
Died: 1990
Died: September 7
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Historian Of The Modern Age
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Alan John Percivale Taylor
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If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
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Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.
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