Question: Facts:   - death place: london , england    - caption: taylor in 1977    - honorific suffix: fba    - birth name: alan john percivale taylor    - spouse: margaret eve crosland -lrb- 1951 -- 1974 ; divorced -rrb- Éva adams haraszti -lrb- 1976 -- 1990 ; his death -rrb- -lrb- 1931 -- 1951 ; divorced -rrb-    - occupation: historian    - opponent: hugh trevor-roper      - awards: fellow of the british academy    - birth date: 25 march 1906    - name: a. j. p. taylor    - citizenship: british    - nationality: english    - image: alan john percivale taylor 1977.jpg    - birth place: birkdale , lancashire , england    - alma mater: oriel college , oxford   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of a. j. p. taylor .
Answer:
alan john percivale `` a. j. p. '' taylor -lrb- 25 march 1906 -- 7 september 1990 -rrb- 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 television lectures .his combination of academic rigour and popular appeal led the historian richard overy to describe him as `` the macaulay of our age '' .