Professor ERIC HOBSBAWM
“Raymond Carr is a very important and also attractive figure in British academic life and nobody could have written a better biography than this one. This book not only brings an unusually interesting person to life, but fills a large gap in the literature – the profound links between British academia, historical writing and our understanding of Spain.”
SIR JOHN ELLIOTT
“This is a very enjoyable book. María Jesús González’s account of Raymond Carr’s life is fascinating, as is her discussion of his contribution to the study of the history of Spain. The research and documentation provided in this volume is scholarly and outstanding.”
El País
SIR JOHN ELLIOTT
11 April 2012
“Carr is a great iconoclast. I greatly enjoyed his biography by María Jesús González.”
Times Literary Supplement
EDITORIAL
29 July 2011
“Carr’s achievement was to write even-handedly about Spain when General Franco made history hard for Spaniards — and to inspire other British historians to do the same. González returns a rigorously sourced compliment.”
Times Literary Supplement
REVIEW BY RONALD FRASER
29 July 2011
“María González won her biographical spurs with a study of Antonio Maura, Spain’s great Conservative Prime Minister of the early twentieth century. She has now come up with a biography of Raymond Carr which quickly turns into something both more ambitious and fascinating: a full length life of the historian and his intellectual and high society milieux, over a large part of the twentieth century.
(…) The author’s assiduity is reflected in her extensive bibliography of works on twentieth-century British socio-political history, written records from mostly personal archives, and interviews with some eighty people connected with one or another aspect of Carr’s world. Hardly a fact or assertion goes by without its being sourced in the endnotes.”
St Antony’s Newsletter. St Antony’s College
ALAN ANGELL, Emeritus Fellow of St Antony’s College
Trinity, 2011
“It is a long book but it sustains the interest of the reader throughout
(…) The author brings to life Raymond’s insatiable curiosity for all aspects of Spanish life, history and culture, his encyclopaedic knowledge of so many aspects of that country, his ability to talk with persons from aristocrats to peasants, and from all parts of the political spectrum.
(…) This book is about the Raymond I knew. His zest for life, his complete lack of pomposity, his breath of intellectual knowledge, his sense of fun, his dedication to his students and his unending fascination with Spain all feature prominently in this excellent book. But it is more than just about Raymond. It is a portrait of intellectual life in Oxford especially in the years after the Second World War, it is a book about how historians approach their subject, and it tells the story of the foundation of the college and the crucial role that Raymond paid.”
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