| E. P. Thompson AKA Edward Palmer Thompson
Born: 3-Feb-1924 Birthplace: Oxford, Oxfordshire, England Died: 28-Aug-1993 Location of death: Upper Wick, Worcester, England Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male Religion: Methodist Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Historian Nationality: England Executive summary: The Making of the English Working Class Military service: British Army (WWII, North Africa) Wife: Dorothy Sale (m. 1948)
High School: Kingswood School, Bath University: BA, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University (1946) Teacher: University of Leeds Professor: University of Warwick (1965-)
Communist Party (broke away, 1956)
Author of books:
William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary (1955, biography) The Making of the English Working Class (1963) Warwick University Limited (1971) Whigs and Hunters: The Origin of the Black Act (1975) The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays (1978) Writing by Candlelight (1980) Protest and Survive (1980) Zero Option (1982) The Heavy Dancers (1985) Star Wars (1985) The Sykaos Papers (1988) Customs in Common: Studies in Traditional Popular Culture (1991) Witness Against the Beast: William Blake and the Moral Law (1993) Making History: Writings on History and Culture (1994) The Romantics: England in a Revolutionary Age (1997) The Collected Poems (1999, poetry)
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