The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson

He died in 1993, survived by his wife and two sons.

Thompson was also an active campaigner and key figure in the ending of the Cold War. The Making of the English Working Class was instantly recognized as a classic on its publication in 1963 and secured his position as one of the leading social historians of his time. An academic, writer and acclaimed historian, his first major work was a biography of William Morris. Thompson was born in 1924 and read history at Corpus Christi, Cambridge, graduating in 1946. 'The greatest of our socialist historians' Terry Eagleton, New StatesmanĮ. It provides a detailed description of the events involved in the emergence of the British working class in the years between 17. 'An event not merely in the writing of English history but in the politics of our century' Michael Foot, Times Literary Supplement Thompson’s magnum opus, The Making of the English Working Class defined early twentieth-century English social and economic history, leading many to consider him Britain’s greatest. This is a formidable 832-page paperback which was written in 1963 by the venerable British historian E. 'Thompson's work combines passion and intellect, the gifts of the poet, the narrator and the analyst' E. a moving account of the culture of the self-taught in an age of social and intellectual deprivation' Asa Briggs, Financial Times 'A dazzling vindication of the lives and aspirations of the then - and now once again - neglected culture of working-class England' Martin Kettle, Observer Thompson shows how the working class took part in its own making and re-creates the whole-life experience of people who suffered loss of status and freedom, who underwent degradation, and who yet created a cultured and political consciousness of great vitality. It provides a detailed description of the. This classic and imaginative account of working-class society in its formative years, 1780 to 1832, revolutionized our understanding of English social history. This is a formidable 832-page paperback which was written in 1963 by the venerable British historian E. Thompson's revolutionary account of working-class culture and ideals is published in Penguin Modern Classics, with a new introduction by historian Michael Kenny

The Making of the English Working Class by E.P. Thompson