Danchev is not only a formidable historian; he is also closely attentive to the dynamics in any relationship.
As I slid into my seat, the senior professor, a formidable historian of Tudor and Stuart England, asked the group: "Have you all got your Pevsners?" Eight hands shot up into the air, each clutching a brown-backed paperback entitled The Buildings of England Suffolkk.
His second wife Anne, a formidable art historian who left her job as curator at the Tate to join him, helped him find a taste for the contemporary.
For a long time, under the influence of the formidable Lewis Namier, the historian of Britain's eighteenth-century Parliament, the pervasive ideas in the political life of the period were held to depend on clans and clan relations, not systems of thought.
The Great Republic, edited by Churchill's grandson, Winston S. Churchill, culls the significant chapters from the larger volume and organizes them alongside articles and speeches to present a view of America that bespeaks not only the author's formidable skills as an historian but also his abiding fondness for some might say his intimate connection to the United States.
Interesting Times: A Twentieth Century Life by Eric Hobsbawm 464pp, Allen Lane, £20 The reputation of Eric Hobsbawm as the leading Marxist historian is so formidable that it has become removed from flesh and blood.
Her Viennese charm made her many friends, and she built up a formidable network of modern economic historians from France, Germany, Scandinavia and the US.
In the past 50 years, he has developed a reputation as one of African-American music's most formidable producers, field researchers and historians, along the way earning a Grammy Award (for producing Clifton Chenier's 1983 zydeco album, "I'm Here"), a Deems Taylor Award for Excellence in Music Writing (for his 1981 book "The Roots of the Blues"), and induction into the Blues Hall of Fame.
The battle for posterity is far from over, and Hirschman has a formidable ally in Adelman, a Princeton historian who knows how to construct a narrative.
The size of the force was, according to historian Samuel Adams Drake, "the most formidable that had ever crossed the Atlantic under the English flag".
Grifters' deceptions can be both incredible and incredibly humiliating to their victims – just ask the Oxford historian who lost his formidable reputation swearing fake Hitler diaries were real or the man who "sold" the Eiffel Tower to a metal-scrap dealer in Paris in the 1920s.
