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Socialist Review, November 1993

Alan Crabtree

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From Ransome to revolution

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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