Hugh Trevor-Roper

Blair Worden is one of Britain's pre-eminent historians of the 17th century and Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, UK. His books include Roundhead Reputations: The English Civil Wars and the Passions of Posterity (2001), Literature and Politics in Cromwellian England: John Milton, Andrew Marvell, Marchamont Nedham (2007), The English Civil Wars 1640-1660 (2010) and God's Instruments: Political Conduct in the England of Oliver Cromwell (2012).

This book is full of good things. Noel Malcolm's chapter...is a model of clear exposition, sense and wit...Blair Worden's introduction is a consummate summary of Trevor-Roper's work as a historian. Moreover, it is a pleasure to read, written in limpid, even beautiful prose that would have brought a smile of satisfaction to its fastidious subject's face. This is an excellent book, with first-class contributors.

• The LifeThe WritingsIntroduction - Blair Worden (University of Oxford, UK)Part One: Seventeenth-Century Revolutions1. The General Crisis of the Sevententh Century - John Elliott (University of Oxford, UK)2. The Puritan Revolution - Blair Worden (University of Oxford, UK)3. Three Foreigners: The Philosophers of the Puritan Revolution - Mark Greengrass (University of Sheffield, UK)Part Two: Ideas and their Contexts, c. 1500 – 18004. Ecumenicalism and Erasmianism: The Wiles Lectures, 1975 - Noel Malcolm (University of Oxford, UK)5. Intellectual History: The Religious Origins of the Enlightenment - John Robertson (University of Cambridge, UK)6. The Politics of the Scottish Enlightenment - Colin Kidd (University of St Andrews, UK)Part Three: Hitler and his World7. Special Service in Germany and The Last Days of Hitler - E.D.R Harrison (Independent Scholar, UK)8. ‘The Chap with the Closest Tabs’: Trevor-Roper and the Hunt for Hitler - Richard Overy (University of Exeter, UK)9. Himmler’s Masseur - Gina Thomas (Independent Scholar, UK)Part Four: The Mind and the Style10. Trevor-Roper and Thomas Carlyle: History and Sensibility – B.W. Young (University of Oxford, UK)11. The Classicist – S.J.V. Malloch (University of Nottingham, UK)12. The Historian as Public Intellectual – Rory Allan (Independent Scholar, UK)13. The Prose Stylist - John Banville (Independent Scholar, UK)14. A ConversationNotes