E. P. Thompson
Sign in to saveBritish historian & peace activist (1924-1993)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1924
- Died
- 1993
- Works
- 58
Top works
- Plebeische Kultur und moralische Ökonomie
- Tempo, capitalismo e classe
- Albion's Fatal Tree
- Società patrizia, cultura plebea
- Warwick University Ltd
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- CLUSTAL W: improving the sensitivity of progressive multiple sequence alignment through sequence weighting, position-specific gap penalties and weight matrix choice
· 1994 · cited 51,798x
- Measuring inconsistency in meta-analyses
· 2003 · cited 51,629x
- The CLUSTAL_X windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis tools
· 1997 · cited 31,661x
- Quantifying heterogeneity in a meta‐analysis
· 2002 · cited 31,436x
- Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0
· 2007 · cited 24,820x
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Key facts
- Born
- Edward Palmer Thompson , ( 1924-02-03 ) 3 February 1924, Oxford , England
- Died
- 28 August 1993 (aged 69), Upper Wick , Worcestershire, England
- Known for
- The Making of the English Working Class
- Spouse
- Dorothy Towers ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1948 )
- Father
- Edward John Thompson
- Education
- Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
- Influences
- Karl Marx , William Morris , William Blake
- Discipline
- History
- Institutions
- University of Warwick (until 1971), University of Leeds
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 3 February 1924
- Died
- 28 August 1993
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Thompson
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Oxford
- Place of death
- Worcester
- Child
- Kate Thompson
- Father
- Edward John Thompson
- Employer
- University of Pittsburgh
- Languages spoken
- English language
Article
Edward Palmer Thompson (3 February 1924 – 28 August 1993) was an English historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner. He is best known for his historical work on the radical movements in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, in particular The Making of the English Working Class (1963).
In 1966, Thompson coined the term "history from below" to describe his approach to social history, which became one of the most consequential developments within the global history discipline. History from below arose from the Communist Party Historians Group and its work to popularise historical materialism. Thompson's work is considered by some to have been among the most important contributions to social history in the latter twentieth-century, with a global impact, including on scholarship in Asia and Africa. In a 2011 poll by History Today magazine, he was named the second most important historian of the previous 60 years, behind only Fernand Braudel.
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1924 births1993 deaths20th-century English biographers20th-century English historians20th-century English male writers20th-century English novelistsAcademics of the University of LeedsAcademics of the University of WarwickAlumni of Corpus Christi College, CambridgeAnti-Stalinist leftBritish Army personnel of World War IIBritish Army soldiers