![]() ![]() There was a further significant round of commentary on the 50 th anniversary broadly from 2013-16 which my book is a delayed part of, but time has moved again. Hence I was looking at views from the late 1980s about events in the 1950s. Reviewing some essays on Thompson and the book the other day in the British Library, which were published shortly before his death in 1993 but like the volume I’m editing had been some years in gestation and several referred back to Thompson’s formative political period in the 1950s when he left the Communist Party. ![]() ![]() The project is still live and hopefully the book will be out in the autumn. I’ve been engaged for far too long in editing a volume of essays (for CSP) which were originally produced to mark the 50 th anniversary in 2013, although updated since. Even so Thompson’s theoretical and methodological approaches still command interest. A fair bit of the research for the book, carried out in the 1950s, has now been overtaken, either by updated empirical evidence or new ideas on how to approach subjects. ![]() Understanding E P Thompson’s Making of the English Working Class at 60Į P Thompson’s Making of the English Working Class was first published in hardback in 19 will mark the 60 th anniversary. ![]()
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