A. J. P. Taylor
His  first book, The Italian Problem in European Diplomacy, 1847–49 was published in 1934. He was a lecturer in history in the University of Manchester from 1930 to 1938. From 1938 to 1976 he was  a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford, and a lecturer at the University of Oxford until 1964.  He was stopped from lecturing because  of the controversy around his book The Origins of the Second World War.  He said  the outbreak of war in 1939 was an unfortunate accident caused by mistakes on everyone's part and was not a part of Hitler's plan.