Contents:Acknowledgements -- List of contributors -- The life -- The writings. Introduction / Blair Worden. Part 1 Seventeenth-century revolutions : The "general crisis of the Seventeenth Century" / John Elliott -- The Puritan revolution / Blair Worden -- Three foreigners: the philosophers of the Puritan revolution / Mark Greengrass. Part 2 Ideas and their contexts, c.1500-1800 : Ecumenism and erasmianism: the Wiles Lectures, 1975 / Noel Malcolm -- Intellectual history: "the religious origins of the Enlightenment" / John Robertson -- The politics of the Scottish Enlightenment / Colin Kidd. Part 3 Hitler and his world : Special service in Germany and The Last Days of Hitler / E.D.R. Harrison -- "The chap with the closest tabs:" Trevor-Roper and the hunt for Hitler / Richard Overy -- Himmler's masseur / Gina Thomas. Part 4 The mind and the style : Trevor-Roper and Thomas Carlyle: history and sensibility / B.W. Young -- The classicist / S.J.V. Malloch -- The historian as public intellectual / Rory Allan -- The prose stylist / John Banville -- A conversation. Notes -- Index.