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Also Known As Gildus
Died 570?

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Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
English politician and author
Quentin Skinner
Quentin Skinner
British historian
E.P. Thompson
British historian
Arnold J. Toynbee
Arnold J. Toynbee
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J.B. Bury
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James Anthony Froude
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Bryce, James
James Bryce, Viscount Bryce
British statesman
Sir Isaiah Berlin
British historian
A.L. Rowse
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J.F.C. Fuller
J.F.C. Fuller
British army officer
Aelred of Rievaulx, Saint
Saint Aelred of Rievaulx
Cistercian monk
Sir Basil Liddell Hart
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Hugh Trevor-Roper
Hugh Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glanton
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Childe, V. Gordon
V. Gordon Childe
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A.N. Wilson
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William Marsden
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Sir Lewis Bernstein Namier
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Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, sepia drawing by George Frederick Watts; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir James Fitzjames Stephen, 1st Baronet
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Sir Arthur Bryant
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