Early Life
E.P. Thompson was born in Oxford to Methodist missionary parents: His father, Edward John Thompson (1886-1946) was a poet and admirer of the Nobel-prize winning poet Tagore. His older brother was William Frank Thompson (1919–1944), a British officer in World War II, who was captured and shot aiding the Bulgarian anti-fascist partisans.
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