Michael Taylor

Michael Taylor

Historian

Michael Taylor is a historian of 18th- and 19th-century Britain. His first book, The Interest, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Political Writing.

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Side-by-side sepia-toned portrait images of huxley and wilberforce in 19th-century attire, facing opposite directions, merged with a vertical dividing line.
The Past
Huxley vs. Wilberforce: What really happened at the 1860 Oxford evolution debate
The true story of the shot that "reverberated through England" when science collided head-on with religion.
Michael Taylor
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