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Há 2 dias · He was the blood-spattered forefather to the despotic progenies of the 20th century, and, according to Lord Action, ‘the most hateful character in the forefront of history since Machiavelli’. (1) McPhee rescues Robespierre from such venom, stripping away the layers of myth and prejudice that have set over the years to show us a ...
Há 2 dias · ~ Lord Acton, ‘The English Revolution’ (c. 1899–1901), quoted in Lectures on Modern History (1906), pp. 231–32 The Annals of America is a mammoth project whose sole purpose will be to tell the American story (via Podcast format) using Primary Source Materials strictly from The Annals of America, first Published in 1968 by Encyclopaedia Britannica & edited by Charles Van Doren ...
Hugh Trevor-Roper compared Lord Acton to Burckhardt and Alexis de Toqueville, saying that they, “…belonged to that unfashionable élite of the nineteenth century, the aristocratic historical pessimists…” (Lord Acton, Lectures on Modern History , with an Introduction by Hugh Trevor-Roper, The Fontana Library, 1960, p.
Há 2 dias · Lord Acton, en su ensayo basado en la libertad y el poder, hizo suya la pregunta: “¿Es el patriotismo el último refugio de los miserables?”. Quizás algunos lo piensen, ...
Há 5 dias · Essex's army at Acton. In November 1642, a few days before the battle of Brentford, the Lord General (the Earl of Essex) and the Earl of Warwick, marching with their forces out of London, made Acton the place of their rendezvous (fn. 2). Cromwellmet there by a grand procession.
Há 3 dias · Lords of Acton Scott manor invested in improved farm buildings in the 18th century. Edward Acton built Church Farm in coursed stone in 1732 and John Stackhouse built a barn there in 1798. (fn. 264) In the 1760s Edward Acton's nephew and namesake, lord 1747-75, was probably much involved in the running of his estate.
Há 3 dias · John Neville Figgis, scholar and theologian, did much valuable work in English and Church history, and was sub-editor of Lord Acton's Cambridge Modern History. He was never a fellow of St. Catharine's, but in 1909 was elected to an honorary fellowship.
