My Recollections of George Trevelyan [1956]

THIS PAPER WAS one of three tributes to George Macaulay Trevelyan (1876-1962) broadcast on the BBC’s Home Service on 16 February 1956 to mark the famous historian’s eightieth birthday. The programme began with an assessment of Trevelyan’s scholarship by his protégé, the Cambridge historian J.H.Plumb. Next, another purveyor of popular history in the grand narrative style, Veronica Wedgwood, discussed the literary aspects of historical writing, while Russell concluded the thirty-minute symposium with a more personal reminiscence. The contributions of Wedgwood and Russell were repeated on the General Overseas Service on 21 February and then published in London Calling, no. 861 (3 May 1956): 8 (B&R C56.08).