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All other forms of history - economic history, social history, psychological history, above all sociology - seem to me history with the history left out.
A. J. P. Taylor
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A. J. P. Taylor
Age: 84 †
Born: 1906
Born: March 25
Died: 1990
Died: September 7
Historian
Historian Of The Modern Age
Journalist
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Alan John Percivale Taylor
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Sociology
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If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
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