Inspirational Quotes by Hugh Trevor-Roper (British Historian)

Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton (1914–2003,) was an English historian and controversialist renowned for his works on World War II, Adolf Hitler, and Elizabethan history.

Born in Glanton, Northumberland, he attended Charterhouse and Christ Church, Oxford. He achieved international fame with his vivid reconstruction, The Last Days of Hitler (1947.) He held prestigious positions as Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford (1957–80) and Master of Peterhouse College-Cambridge (1980–87,) later becoming an Honorary Fellow in 1987.

Trevor-Roper’s writings spanned a diverse range of topics, including medieval Christendom, European witch-hunting, the John F. Kennedy assassination, the Kim Philby affair, the Scottish Enlightenment, and British devolution. He notably edited The Goebbels Diaries (1978.)

His interest in modern history was reflected in his works on World War II, such as The Philby Affair: Espionage & Secret Service (1968) and his editorial contributions to Hitler’s Table Talk, 1941–44 (1953,) Hitler’s War Directives, 1939–45 (1964,) and The Goebbels Diaries (1978.) He gained widespread attention in 1983 when he authenticated what were believed to be Hitler’s diaries; they were later exposed as forgeries.

Among his other notable works are The European Witch-Craze of the Sixteenth Century (1967,) The Rise of Christian Europe (1965,) Renaissance Essays (1985,) and From Counter-Reformation to Glorious Revolution (1992.)

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