Peter Laslett (1915–2001)

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1. Lawrence Stone

   Author of Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800 (Abridged, no footnotes), The Causes of the English Revolution: 1529-1642, The Crisis of the Aristocracy, 1558-1641 (Galaxy Books)

2. Christopher Hill

   Author of The world turned upside down: radical ideas during the English Revolution, The Century of Revolution, 1603-1714, God's Englishman: Oliver Cromwell and the English Revolution

3. Peter Laslett

   Author of Philosophy, Politics and Society: Series 2, Philosophy, Politics and Society, Philosophy, Politics and Society: Series 4

4. Bernard Bailyn

   Author of The Peopling of British North America: An Introduction, The Origins of American Politics, The New England Merchants in the Seventeenth Century

5. Fernand Braudel

   Author of The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Vol. 1, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, Vol. 2, Capitalism and Material Life, 1400-1800

6. J.H. Plumb

   Author of England in the Eighteenth Century, The Growth of Political Stability in England, 1675-1725

7. Erich Fromm

   Author of The Fear of Freedom, The Sane Society, Man for Himself

8. Douglas Hay

   Author of Albion's fatal tree : crime and society in eighteenth-century England

9. E.P. Thompson

   Author of Making of the English Working Class, Whigs And Hunters: The Origin Of The Black Act

10. Lynn Hunt

    Author of The New Cultural History (Studies on the History of Society and Culture)

11. Richard Tuck

    Author of Natural Rights Theories: Their Origin and Development, Philosophy and Government 1572-1651 (Ideas in Context)

12. J. G. A. Pocock

    Author of The Machiavellian Moment: Florentine Political Thought and the Atlantic Republican Tradition, The Ancient Constitution and the Feudal Law: A Study of English Historical Thought in the Seventeenth Century

13. S.T. Bindoff

    Author of Tudor England

14. M. Dorothy George

    Author of London Life in the Eighteenth Century

15. Asa Briggs

    Author of Victorian Cities

16. Keith Wrightson

    Author of English Society, 1580-1680, Poverty and Piety in an English Village: Terling, 1525-1700 (Clarendon Paperbacks)

17. Michael Walzer

    Author of The Revolution of the Saints: A Study in the Origins of Radical Politics

18. Maurice Ashley

    Author of England in the Seventeenth Century

19. Arthur O. Lovejoy

    Author of The Great Chain of Being: A Study of the History of an Idea

20. Carl L. Becker

    Author of The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers