E. P. Thompson - Life and Career

Life and Career

In 1946, E.P. Thompson formed the Communist Party Historians Group along with Christopher Hill, Eric Hobsbawm, Rodney Hilton, Dona Torr and others. In 1952 this group launched the influential journal Past and Present.

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