British historian who writes literary narrative history — on the Dutch Golden Age, the French Revolution, and British history — and is the most watched historian on television.
Citizens: a counter-revisionist history of the French Revolution — against the rehabilitation of the Ancien Régime. The Embarrassment of Riches: the culture of the Dutch Republic in the Golden Age. Landscape and Memory: how European landscapes carry cultural memory. BBC Histories of Britain and America: reaching the largest television audiences for academic history.
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