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Fifty years ago E. P. Thompson published The Making of the English Working Class, one of the most influential social history works ever. Its approach to the history of common people, its arguments and its methods came to influence several generations of historians and others all over the world. To trace Thompson’s influences, and with it the larger story of the varied approaches to social history that have come out of them, the Program on the Study of Capitalism and the Weatherhead Initiative on Global History at Harvard University seek to initiate a global conversation among researchers across the humanities and social sciences to reflect critically on Thompson's impact on the writing of history and his enduring significance for future research. At a time of global economic crises, as scholarship returns to themes of class, inequality and political economy with renewed interest, urgency, and moral purpose, the fiftieth anniversary of the Making of the English Working Class offers a welcome opportunity to both critically reflect on Thompson's scholarship and consider the ways in which his ideas, methods and commitments can still inspire intellectual frameworks and research programs that speak to present global problems.
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Celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of E P Thompson’s Making of the English Working Class- Sat 16 November 2013, Halifaxby Fiona Cosson |
Join the Society for the Study of Labour History at
Halifax Square Chapel for a lecture and discussion on the life and work
of E. P. Thompson (1924-1993), leading radical historian and author of
the seminal The Making of the English Working Class (1963) on
Saturday 16 November 2013. Professor Bryan D. Palmer (Trent University,
Ontario) will deliver a key note lecture on ‘History as Argument: The
Contrarian Analytics of The Making of the English Working Class’
followed by a roundtable discussion chaired by Professor Neville Kirk.
Panelists will include: Professor John Belchem, Professor Malcolm Chase,
Professor Joe White, Professor Paul Pickering, Dr Peter Gurney,
Professor D. Palmer and Dr Matthew Roberts. In the afternoon Dr John
Hargreaves will lead a local history walk to the house where the
Thompsons lived where a plaque will be unveiled.
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