Michael Taylor
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Michael Taylor is an historian of colonial slavery, the British Empire and the British Isles. He graduated with a double first in history from the University of Cambridge, where he earned his PhD - and also won University Challenge. He has since been Lecturer in Modern British History at Balliol College, Oxford, and he is currently a Visiting Fellow at the British Library's Eccles Centre for American Studies.
Books by Michael Taylor
Impossible Monsters
From fossil-hunting to the end of faith: a gripping narrative history of the seventy-five-year culture war that transformed how we think about the universe and our place in it
The Interest
A dramatic narrative history based on new research revealing the previously hidden side of the story of abolition