E.P. Thompson
Edward Palmer Thompson was an English historian, Marxist writer, and peace campaigner, best known for his groundbreaking scholarship on radical movements in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
A leading intellectual within the Communist Party of Great Britain, he departed in 1956 following the Soviet invasion of Hungary, yet remained committed to Marxist historical traditions.
Thompson was central to Britain's first New Left movement, authored influential biographies of William Morris and William Blake, and was a vocal critic of Labour governments.
During the 1980s, he became the foremost intellectual advocate for nuclear disarmament in Europe.
