A. J. P. Taylor
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Alan John Percivale Taylor was an English historian who specialised in 19th- and 20th-century European diplomacy. Both a journalist and a broadcaster, he became well known to millions through his tele
Taylor c. 1955
The history of the United Kingdom begins in 1707 with the Treaty of Union and Acts of Union. The core of the United Kingdom as a unified state came into being with the political union of the kingdoms
A published version of the Treaty of Union agreement, which led to the creation of the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707
George I in 1714, by Godfrey Kneller
18th-century London by William Hogarth
John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough accepts the French surrender at Blenheim, 1704.