G. M. Young
George Malcolm Young was an English historian, best known for his book on Victorian times in Britain, Portrait of an Age (1936).
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Background
- Educated at
- Balliol College
- Awards
- 🏆 James Tait Black Memorial Prize
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Trending topics shown first"The human mind is still something of a troglodyte. Expelled from one falling cavern, its first thought is to find another."
"Of historic method, indeed, nothing wiser has ever been said than a word which will be found in Gibbon's youthful Essay on the Study of Literature. Facts, the young sage instructs us, are of three kin…"
"To attend a place of worship, to abstain from spirits, to read a serious newspaper and put money in the savings bank, was in 1840 as good an ideal as could be set before a man. To pursue it gave him r…"
"A flight of perplexed unstable minds into the Confessional, into Spiritualism, into strange Eastern Cults."
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1882
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Birth1959
Died
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