'I am seeking to rescue the poor stockinger, the Luddite cropper, the 'obsolete' hand-loom weaver, the 'utopian' artisan . . . from the enormous condescension of posterity' E. P. Thompson's revolutionary 1963 account of working-class life re-created the experiences, ideals, rituals and aspirations of those who had been forgotten by history. From radical weavers to reforming journalists, it showed how the working class took part in the making of its own identity from 1780 to 1832- a time of acute upheaval in which countless people suffered degrading loss of status and freedom, yet created a culture and political consciousness of huge vitality. With a new introduction by Michael Kenny 'A masterpiece.' Tristram Hunt, Observer 'Thompson's work combines passion and intellect, the gifts of the poet, the narrator and the analyst.' Eric Hobsbawm
'I am seeking to rescue the poor stockinger, the Luddite cropper, the 'obsolete' hand-loom weaver, the 'utopian' artisan . . . from the enormous condescension of posterity' E. P. Thompson's revolutionary 1963 account of working-class life re-created the experiences, ideals, rituals and aspirations of those who had been forgotten by history. From radical weavers to reforming journalists, it showed how the working class took part in the making of its own identity from 1780 to 1832- a time of acute upheaval in which countless people suffered degrading loss of status and freedom, yet created a culture and political consciousness of huge vitality. With a new introduction by Michael Kenny 'A masterpiece.' Tristram Hunt, Observer 'Thompson's work combines passion and intellect, the gifts of the poet, the narrator and the analyst.' Eric Hobsbawm
E. P. Thompson's revolutionary 1963 account of working-class life re-created the experiences, ideals, rituals and aspirations of those who had been forgotten by history.
E. P. Thompson was born in 1924 and read history at Corpus Christi, Cambridge, graduating in 1946. An academic, writer and acclaimed historian, his first major work was a biography of William Morris. 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. Thompson was also a leading figure in the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. He died in 1993.
Thompson's work combines passion and intellect, the gifts of the
poet, the narrator and the analyst
*Independent*
A dazzling vindication of the lives and aspirations of the then -
and now once again - neglected culture of working-class England
*Observer*
Superbly readable . . . a moving account of the culture of the
self-taught in an age of social and intellectual deprivation
*Financial Times*
An event not merely in the writing of English history but in the
politics of our century
*Times Literary Supplement*
The greatest of our socialist historians
*New Statesman*
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