id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-6719 John Roberts (historian) - Wikipedia .html text/html 1451 182 68 John Roberts (historian) Wikipedia Roberts did not hesitate to take on ambitious subjects, and in 1976 he published The History of the World, regularly updated in later years and still in print today.[4] The Times Literary Supplement described Roberts as "master of the broad brush-stroke", and in 1985 Roberts wrote and presented the thirteen-part BBC television series The Triumph of the West, a series which painted a broad canvas but avoided simplistic solutions, encouraging the audience to think and reach its own conclusions.[3] Later he served as historical advisor to the BBC series People's Century. Roberts died in 2003, at Roadwater, Somerset,[6] shortly after completing the fourth revised edition of his The New History of the World. The New History of the World (6th Edition, 2013 Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Roberts_(historian)&oldid=981767256" Wikipedia articles with CANTIC identifiers Wikipedia articles with ISNI identifiers Wikipedia articles with LCCN identifiers Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-6719.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-6719.txt