From Ransome to revolution (November 1993) (original) (raw)
Socialist Review, November 1993
Alan Crabtree
Letters
From Socialist Review, No. 169, November 1993.
Copyright © Socialist Review.
Copied with thanks from the Socialist Review Archive.
Marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for ETOL.
I would like to thank you for the article on E.P. Thompson in Socialist Review.
Having left an English public school equipped with the mental architecture of an English Whig, I discovered EPT via the following rather unconventional route:
- Swallows and Amazons
- The Autobiography of Arthur Ransome
- William Morris
- William Morris biography by E.P. Thompson
- The Making of the English Working Class
I was liberated by Thompson and owe him so much that I am undoubtedly rather uncritical. Your more balanced article was fascinating and invaluable.
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