![]() ![]() ![]() His last book, Customs in Common (1991), is a study of eighteenth-century popular beliefs and behaviour. Other books include Whigs and Hunters and The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays. The Making of the English Working Class was instantly recognized as a classic on its publication in 1963 and secured his position as one of the leading social historians of his time. Thompson’s first major work was his biography, William Morris: Romantic to Revolutionary, which first appeared in 1955 (revised edition, 1977). He died in 1993, survived by his wife and two sons. Thompson held no permanent academic posts, but was a visiting professor at several American universities. ![]() Thompson was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 1992, and was a Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A freelance writer and admired historian, he was also a founder of END and a Vice-President of CND. From 1948 until 1965 he was extra-mural Lecturer at Leeds University in the West Riding and he was also Reader at the Centre for the Study of Social History at the University of Warwick. His time there was interrupted by war service in Italy. Thompson was born in 1924, and read history at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, graduating in 1946. ![]()
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