Category Archives: E. P. Thompson

Books received – Parkin, Mac Cumhaill & Wiseman, Margulies, Thompson, Demoule, Hubbard, Kitchin & Valentine

Some recently bought books, along with Jared D. Margulies, The Cactus Hunters: Desire and Extinction in the Illicit Succulent Trade, sent by University of Minnesota Press. Key Thinkers on Space and Place is the first edition; I already had the … Continue reading

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Books received – Leroi-Gourhan, Robertson, Allmer, Thompson, Gadoffre, Braudel, Gamsby

A few second-hand books, along with Ritchie Robertson’s Friedrich Nietzsche, Patricia Allmer, René Magritte and Patrick Gamsby, Henri Lefebvre, Boredom, and Everyday Life, in recompense for review work.

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Edward (E.P.) Thompson and Dorothy Thompson website

Edward (E.P.) Thompson and Dorothy Thompson resources page on the Verso site Edward and Dorothy Thompson were historians and activists. They met in 1945, and worked together on the international youth brigade which helped to build the railway in Tito’s Yugoslavia. Soon afterwards they … Continue reading

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The Railway – An Adventure in Construction, edited by E.P. Thompson – reissued by RabRab Press, 2020

The Railway – An Adventure in Construction, edited by E.P. Thompson – reissued by RabRab Press, 2020 The Railway – An Adventure in Construction is a reprint of an unjustly forgotten book edited by renowned historian E. P. Thompson, detailing … Continue reading

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Warwick University Ltd, forty plus years on conference – video available

The conference to mark the re-publication of the book Warwick University Ltd was held last Friday in the Arts Centre. It was a unique event with speakers who were students involved in the sit-in and the discovery of the secret … Continue reading

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E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left

  E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left: Essays and Polemics by E. P. Thompson; edited by Cal Winslow – out in June with Monthly Review Press. More details and endorsements at the site – here’s the blurb. E. P. Thompson … Continue reading

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Books received- Jaspers, Thompson, Heidegger, journals

Another pile of post today – three books by Karl Jaspers, including his Groningen lectures Reason and Existenz; Richard Yarwood’s Citizenship;the re-edition of E.P. Thompson’s Warwick University Ltd; the first volume of Heidegger’s Schwartze Hefte; and some new issues of … Continue reading

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‘Reflections on Jacoby and All That’: An Unpublished Essay by E. P. Thompson

History Workshop have made available a previously unpublished essay by E.P. Thompson here.

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