"In this biography, Kathleen Burk sets Taylor's professional work in the context of the development of history in England and traces the relationship between his writing and his response to contemporary politics. She describes his career as a professional historian at Manchester and then at Oxford, his politics, including his public stance against appeasement and in favour of rearmament in the late 1930s, and his leading role in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in the 1950s. The considerable rewards of his parallel career as a freelance journalist and broadcaster, and the successive crises of his private and professional lives, are meticulously revealed."--BOOK JACKET.