Biography, Works and Contributions of E.P. Thompson The Great New Left Historians of the 20th Century

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E.P.Thompson was an important, well-known and intellectually influential British Marxist historian. He was an active member of the British Communist Party. But he broke away from the party in 1950 and joined his fellow established the New Left. His most important and influential writing around the world was The Making of the English Working Class (1963).

Thompson was a passionate and romantic polymath whose range of intellectual and political achievements was remarkable. His activities and writings were, spanning literature, history, fiction and poetry, biography, adult education, socialist and libertarian politics, and not least peace-movement activism, they had a unity and coherence. The heart of Thompson's interpretation is the idea of ​​agency, alongside his uncompromising weight on the importance of empirical inquiry in the study of history.