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Born	c.1550 • England
Died	July 1610 • Sandwich • England
Notable Works	“Generall Historie of the Turkes, from the first beginning of that Nation”
Subjects Of Study	Turkey

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John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, 1st Baron Acton

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James Anthony Froude

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Hilaire Belloc

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Richard Henry Tawney

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John Rushworth

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Thomas Fuller

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R.G. Collingwood

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William Camden

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Samuel Rawson Gardiner

British historian

J.F.C. Fuller

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Sir Basil Liddell Hart

British military historian

Matthew Paris

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Orderic Vitalis

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A.N. Wilson

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A. F. Pollard

English historian and author