"... a “structure”, nor even as a “category”, but as something which in fact happens (and can be shown to have happened) in human relationships." #EPThompson, Preface to The Making of the English #WorkingClass(1963);

WOW! On the #CBCRadio(?) show #TheNextChapter, #KateBeaton revealed she’s a fan of historians #EPThompson and #IanMcKay! I’ve heard nothing but high praise for Thompson’s work for many years. As for McKay - that guy BETTER finish volumes 2 & 3 of his history of Canadian socialism. Ⓐ

Beautiful First Edition from Gollancz of E.P. Thompson's now classic work of Social History

#makingoftheenglishworkingclass #epthompson #socialhistory #englishhistory #historybooks #workingclass #gollancz #firstedition #seriousnonfiction

The "idea of agency, of people, even in the most inauspicious circumstances, possessing the capacity to act on the world.."

#WorkingClass #Luddites #EPThompson

Kenan Malik - Whit EPT tells us aboot contempt for today’s working class (The Guardian, 04.2.2024)

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Just realised that today is both the birthday of #EPThompson, #StuartHall and my father. That can’t be a coincidence!

Ein Thread zu #EPThompson
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