swap_horiz R.G. Collingwood Alternatives

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Quentin Skinner

Quentin Skinner is a prominent British historian specializing in early modern political thought. His work focuses on the...

Intellectual 20TH Century British Early Modern

9.2 Excellent

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Keith Thomas

Sir Keith Thomas is a Welsh historian of early modern England whose work combines social, cultural, and intellectual his...

Social Cultural 20TH Century British

8.8 Great

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John H. Elliott

John H. Elliott was a British historian of early modern Europe, with particular attention to Spain, the Spanish monarchy...

20TH Century Comparative British Early Modern

8.8 Great

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E.H. Carr

E.H. Carr was a British historian, diplomat, journalist, and theorist of international relations. His 1961 book What Is...

20TH Century British Soviet Diplomatic

8.7 Great

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John Keegan

John Keegan (1934-2012) was a British military historian whose books examined how warfare was experienced and conducted...

Military Narrative 20TH Century British

8.6 Great

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Michael Howard

Sir Michael Howard was a British military historian whose work examined war, strategy, and the development of modern Eur...

Military 20TH Century British Strategic

8.6 Great

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Roy Porter

Roy Porter (1946-2002) was a British historian whose work covered medicine, the Enlightenment, science, and social histo...

Medicine Social 20TH Century British

8.5 Great

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A.J.P. Taylor

A.J.P. Taylor was a British historian who specialized in European diplomatic history, international relations, and the c...

20TH Century British Diplomatic Modern Europe

8.4 Great

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Peter Green

Peter Green was a British classical scholar, historian, and translator whose work focused on ancient Greece and the Hell...

Classical Ancient Greece 20TH Century British

8.4 Great

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Terence Ranger

Terence Ranger was a British Africanist historian whose scholarship focused on colonialism, African nationalism, religio...

20TH Century British Colonial African

8.4 Great

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Geoffrey Elton

Geoffrey Rudolph Elton was a German-born British historian of Tudor England and a major scholar of political and constit...

20TH Century British Political Tudor

8.3 Great

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Paul Veyne

Paul Veyne was a French historian and archaeologist whose scholarship focused on ancient Rome and the methods used to wr...

French Philosophical 20TH Century Ancient

8.3 Great

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Roger Owen

Roger Owen was a British historian of the modern Middle East and a professor at Harvard University, where he held the A....

20TH Century British Colonial Middle Eastern

8.3 Great

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John Lynch

John Lynch (1927-2018) was a British historian of Latin America and the Spanish American world. He taught at the Univers...

20TH Century British Latin American Spanish Colonial

8.2 Great

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Herbert Butterfield

Herbert Butterfield was a British historian and Christian thinker whose work examined how historians interpret the past....

20TH Century Historiography British Political

8.1 Great

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Norman Davies

Norman Davies is a British historian whose books focus on Poland, Eastern Europe, and the wider history of the continent...

Polish European 20TH Century British

8.1 Great

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Basil Davidson

Basil Davidson was a British journalist, writer, and historian whose work focused on African history and politics. His b...

20TH Century British African Nationalist

8.1 Great

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G.M. Trevelyan

G. M. Trevelyan was an English historian whose books brought social and political history together in readable narrative...

Narrative Social 20TH Century British

8.0 Great

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Hugh Trevor-Roper

Hugh Trevor-Roper was a British historian whose research covered early modern Europe, British history, and Nazi Germany....

20TH Century British Political Nazi Germany

7.9 Good

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Arnold Toynbee

Arnold Toynbee was a British historian best known for A Study of History, a twelve-volume comparative work published bet...

20TH Century Comparative British World History

7.7 Good