The Professor & the Parson by Adam Sisman review – a conman’s compelling career
Hugh Trevor-Roper’s pursuit of a fraudster makes gripping reading
September 2016
100 best nonfiction books of all time
The 100 best nonfiction books: No 32 – The Last Days of Hitler by Hugh Trevor-Roper (1947)
The historian’s vivid, terrifying account of the Führer’s demise, based on his postwar work for British intelligence, remains unsurpassed
April 2014
Is being a 'gentleman' really a genuine aspiration for anyone today?
Philip Hensher
Philip Hensher: Social mobility has been on the decline since the 1990s. Could it be that a new enthusiasm for learning how to be a gentleman heralds a revival
January 2014
One Hundred Letters from Hugh Trevor-Roper – review
One Hundred Letters From Hugh Trevor-Roper – review
March 2013
British Writers and MI5 Surveillance 1930-1960 by James Smith – review
Sam Leith on how the surveillance of Britain's supposedly communist writers was largely a comedy of errors
August 2010
Brain food
In praise of losers
Aditya Chakrabortty: Sometimes life's losers are just victims of chance – so do they deserve a critical savaging?
July 2010
Greenslade
Murdoch 'a megalomaniac twister'
"Rupert Murdoch is a megalomaniac twister, surrounded by yes-men and hatchet-men". That sharp description by Hugh Trevor-Roper was contained in a February 1982 letter to his confidant, the historian Blair Worden
Book of the week
Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography by Adam Sisman
Stefan Collini on a frank biography of the scholar who staked his reputation on the Hitler 'diaries'
Hugh Trevor-Roper: The Biography by Adam Sisman
Hugh Trevor-Roper had his foibles and came unstuck over the Hitler diaries. But after a brilliant beginning at Oxford he would scale the heights of greatness, writes AN Wilson
September 2009
The Invention of Scotland: Myth and History by Hugh Trevor-Roper
Trevor-Roper's wittiest book is also problematic and unfinished and lacks an overarching argument, says Brian Morton
August 2006
Malice aforethought
Hitler, Jews, Venice, fellow historians - there wasn't anybody or anything that wasn't scorned in Hugh Trevor-Roper's letters, says Laura Cumming.
