Historian Hugh Trevor-Roper said in 1977 that More was " the first great Englishman whom we feel that we know, the most saintly of humanists, the most human of saints, the universal man of our cool northern renaissance.

Hugh Trevor-Roper said about them: " It is thanks to Camden that we ascribe to Queen Elizabeth a consistent policy of via media rather than an inconsequent series of unresolved conflicts and paralysed indecisions.

When Taylor offered a picture of Hitler similar to Bullock's in his 1961 book The Origins of the Second World War, the same debate continued, very publicly, between Taylor and Trevor-Roper.

In 1973, Trevor-Roper in the foreword to a book by John Röhl endorsed the view that Germany was largely responsible for World War I. Trevor-Roper wrote that, in his opinion, far too many British historians had allowed themselves to be persuaded of the theory that the outbreak of war in 1914 had been the fault of all the great powers.

The third book was The Invention of Scotland: Myth and History, a critique written in the mid-1970s of what Trevor-Roper regarded as the myths of Scottish nationalism.

2006 saw the publication of the noted British historian Hugh Trevor-Roper's letters to Berenson in the period 1947-1960, in a book entitled Letters from Oxford: Hugh Trevor-Roper to Bernard Berenson, edited by Richard Davenport-Hines, published by Weidenfeld & Nicholson.

The authenticity of the book is controversial and is claimed by some historian such as Wolfgang Hänel to be a fabrication, while others such as Richard Steigmann-Gall, Ian Kershaw and Hugh Trevor-Roper have avoided using it as a reference due to its questionable authenticity.

During World War II, Trevor-Roper served as an officer in the Radio Security Service of the Secret Intelligence Service, and then on the interception of messages from the German intelligence service, the Abwehr.

* The Age of Expansion, Europe and the World, 1559-1600, edited by Hugh Trevor-Roper, 1968.

Despite his background in the functionalist historiography, Kershaw admits that his account of Hitler in World War II owes much to intentionalist historians like Gerhard Weinberg, Hugh Trevor-Roper, Lucy Dawidowicz and Eberhard Jäckel.

In particular, Trevor-Roper criticised Taylor's argument that the Hossbach Memorandum of 1937 was a meaningless document because none of the scenarios outlined in the Memorandum as the prerequisite for war such as the Spanish Civil War leading to a war between Italy and France in the Mediterranean or civil war breaking out in France occurred.

As a historian of early modern Britain, Trevor-Roper was most famous for his disputes with fellow historians such as Lawrence Stone and Christopher Hill, whose materialist ( and in some measure " inevitablist ") explanations of the English Civil War he enthusiastically attacked.

Trevor-Roper was a leading player in the so-called " storm over the gentry " ( also known as the " gentry controversy "), a dispute with Christian Socialist R. H. Tawney and Stone about whether the English gentry were, economically, on the way down or up in the century before the English Civil War, and whether this had anything to do with the outbreak of that war in 1642.

" Villari went on to accuse Trevor-Roper of downgrading the importance of what Villari called the English Revolution ( the usual Marxist term for the English Civil War ), and insisted that the " general crisis " was part of an idealistic Europe-wide revolutionary movement.

* Trevor-Roper, Hugh " A. J. P. Taylor, Hitler and the War " pages 86 – 96 from Encounter, Volume 17, July 1961.

Trevor-Roper inverted this theory, arguing that in fact the Civil War was caused in part by court gentry who had fallen on bad times.

* 1914 – Hugh Trevor-Roper, English historian ( d. 2003 )

As the American historian Gerhard Weinberg noted, German demands for territorial revision went beyond merely regaining land lost under the Treaty of Versailles, and instead embraced calls for the German conquest and colonization of all Eastern Europe, regardless of whether the land in question had belonged to Germany before 1918 or not Likewise, the British historian Hugh Trevor-Roper argued that the goal of overthrowing Versailles was only a prelude to seizing Lebensraum in Eastern Europe for Germany with no regard as to where Germany's 1914 frontiers had been.

Wildeblood had been convicted and sent to prison, while Winter and Trevor-Roper were more respectable: Winter was director of the Fitzwilliam Museum and Trevor-Roper was a distinguished eye surgeon and brother of the famous historian Hugh Trevor-Roper.

* Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre ( 1914 – 2003 ), historian

Taylor had a famous rivalry with the right-wing historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, with whom he often debated on television.

Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper ( 15 January 1914 – 27 January 2003 ) was an English historian of early modern Britain and Nazi Germany and Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford.

Trevor-Roper argued that history should be understood as an art, not a science, and asserted that the key attribute of the successful historian was the power of imagination.

The “ general crisis ” thesis generated much controversy between those, such as the Marxist historian Eric Hobsbawm, who believed in the thesis, but saw the problems of 17th-century Europe as being more social and economic in origin than Trevor-Roper would allow.

At times, the discussion became quite heated ; the Italian Marxist historian Rosario Villari, speaking of the work of Trevor-Roper and Mousnier, claimed that: " The hypothesis of imbalance between bureaucratic expansion and the needs of the state is too vague to be plausible, and rests on inflated rhetoric, typical of a certain type of political conservative, rather than on effective analysis.

Another Marxist critic of Trevor-Roper was the Soviet historian A. D. Lublinskaya, who attacked the concept of a conflict between " Court " and " Country " as fiction, and thus argued there was no " general crisis ;" instead Lublinskaya maintained that the so-called " general crisis " was merely the normal workings of the emergence of capitalism.

The historian Hugh Trevor-Roper dismissed Rich as a man " of whom nobody has ever spoken a good word ".

Richard Henry Roper, was the great-great-great-grandfather of the historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton.

Lord Dacre can also refer to Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, a historian and life peer.

The noted historian Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton, was the great-great-great-grandson of Reverend the Hon.

The British historian Hugh Trevor-Roper noted that although photographs of the killings were officially forbidden, it was very common for both the men of the Einsatzgruppen and various by-standers to take pictures of the killings to send to their loved ones, which would suggest widespread approval of the massacres.

In 1992 Neil was criticised by Anti-Nazi groups and historian Hugh Trevor-Roper among others for employing, as a translator of the diaries of Joseph Goebbels, the Holocaust denier David Irving.

Hugh Trevor-Roper, one modern historian inclined to sympathize with at least the spirit of his views, called him " eccentric.

Blake was a good friend of the late historian Hugh Trevor-Roper.

A subtle but important difference in the style between the two historians was their manner of addressing each other during their TV debates: Trevor-Roper always addressed Taylor as " Mr. Taylor " or just " Taylor ", while Taylor always addressed Trevor-Roper as " Hugh ".

Other possible inspirations include Lieutenant Colonel Sir Claude Dansey, deputy head of MI6 and head of the wartime Z network, who achieved different interpretations of his character from those who knew him: Malcolm Muggeridge thought him " the only professional in MI6 ", whilst Hugh Trevor-Roper considered Dansey to be " an utter shit, corrupt, incompetent, but with a certain low cunning ".

* Hugh Trevor-Roper, "' Eikon Basilike ': The Problem of the King's Book ", in Historical Essays ( New York: Harper & Row, 1966 ), pp. 211 – 220.

During this period, which coincided with the mastership of Hugh Trevor-Roper, the college endured a period of significant conflict amongst the fellowship, particularly between Trevor-Roper and Cowling.

Likewise, the various articles written by Taylor and Trevor-Roper denouncing each other's scholarship, in which both men's considerable powers of invective were employed with maximum effect, made for entertaining reading.

* Finally, in response to Taylor's argument that Hitler had no programme because his foreign policy seemed to operate in a haphazard and slapdash way, Taylor's critics such as Trevor-Roper worked out the formula by which Hitler held " consistent aims " but sought to achieve via " flexible methods ".

In response to The Last Days of Hitler, Trevor-Roper received a death threat from the Stern Gang for his supposed over-emphasis on Hitler's charisma, which the authors of the death threat felt had exonerated the German people.

The conflict centers around what factors must be present in order for a society to qualify as having a “ history ,” which Trevor-Roper thought required documentable evidence of if and how a society's “ movement ” toward change and development was accomplished.

His brother, Patrick Trevor-Roper, was a leading eye surgeon and prominent gay rights campaigner, one of only three gay individuals willing to testify before the Wolfenden Committee, which was investigating whether British law on this should be changed.