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To Bethnal Green and Bankura To Bethnal Green and Bankura
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An aside about British intellectuals An aside about British intellectuals
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Sheets of flame Sheets of flame
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From Bankura to Boar's Hill From Bankura to Boar's Hill
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An aside about disillusioned British intellectuals An aside about disillusioned British intellectuals
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An ambivalent rebel An ambivalent rebel
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‘Past all usefulness’ ‘Past all usefulness’
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The making of Frank Thompson The making of Frank Thompson
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The changing face of communism The changing face of communism
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The crisis comes to Oxford The crisis comes to Oxford
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‘I simply want to fight’ ‘I simply want to fight’
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‘The blackthorn will soon be out’ ‘The blackthorn will soon be out’
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For communism, and for liberty For communism, and for liberty
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EP Thompson's inheritance EP Thompson's inheritance
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Afternote: describing the legacy of the ‘decade of heroes’ Afternote: describing the legacy of the ‘decade of heroes’
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Notes Notes
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1 The Making of EP Thompson: family, anti-fascism and the 1930s
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Published:May 2011
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This chapter discusses Edward Palmer Thompson's family. The British intelligentsia did not enjoy a great deal of institutional and cultural autonomy. The incompleteness of Edward John's radicalisation was reflected in the books he wrote during the 1920s. He showed his ambivalent, conflicted attitude towards Britain and its Empire by rejecting the political positions of the Quit India movement established by his friends Nehru and Gandhi. Both Frank and Edward Palmer Thompson were powerfully influenced by their parents' interests and attitudes. They soon came to share their father's great love of literature, as well as some of his political views. The chapter then draws together some of the threads of the stories of Edward John and Frank Thompson, and relates them to the story of Edward Palmer Thompson. Thompson's historiographical positions ultimately defer to moral and political arguments which he pursued outside as well as inside the discipline of history.
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