E. P. Thompson
Praise for The Making of the English Working Class
Thompson's work combines passion and intellect, the gifts of the poet, the narrator and the analyst
Eric Hobsbawm, Independent
A dazzling vindication of the lives and aspirations of the then - and now once again - neglected culture of working-class England
Martin Kettle, Observer
Superbly readable . . . a moving account of the culture of the self-taught in an age of social and intellectual deprivation
Asa Briggs, Financial Times
Thompson's work combines passion and intellect, the gifts of the poet, the narrator and the analyst
Eric Hobsbawm, Independent
A dazzling vindication of the lives and aspirations of the then - and now once again - neglected culture of working-class England
Martin Kettle, Observer
Superbly readable . . . a moving account of the culture of the self-taught in an age of social and intellectual deprivation
Asa Briggs, Financial Times
Thompson's work combines passion and intellect, the gifts of the poet, the narrator and the analyst
Eric Hobsbawm, Independent
A dazzling vindication of the lives and aspirations of the then - and now once again - neglected culture of working-class England
Martin Kettle, Observer
Superbly readable . . . a moving account of the culture of the self-taught in an age of social and intellectual deprivation
Asa Briggs, Financial Times