Still relevant: The Making of the English Working Class

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#1 Submitted by Christopher Thompson on November 21, 2013 - 7:34pm

E.P.Thompson was an interesting historian and polemicist but hardly Britain's greatest historian.

#2 Submitted by hechter on December 27, 2018 - 4:15am

Very nice essay. Does Thompson still strike you as mostly irrelevant to our present politics in the wake of Brexit and Trump, among others?

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Robert Colls on why E. P. Thompson’s landmark book belongs on more university reading lists

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