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
A superb narrative history of the discovery of dinosaurs and how they revolutionised our understanding of the Earth's and mankind's origins
The first proper history of the world’s most notorious secret society and its bizarre and dangerous afterlife
A dramatic narrative history based on new research revealing the previously hidden side of the story of abolition