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Work in the grains laws of s.XIII

E. P. Thompson write a book about the Liberalization of the grain market in the 18th century, I will appreciate the name of the book. Milton (talk) 19:15, 11 November 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Help needed on New Reasoner article

The New Reasoner article has no references and is self-contradictory, including on a point of E. P. Thompson's biography. I thought editors here might have good sources at their fingertips. Daask (talk) 13:17, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thompson and the New Left

Thompson's 1959 vision for a New Left quoted at New Left#United Kingdom is anti-authoritarian, skeptical of authority, and critical of the Soviet Union. The term "New Left" later became associated with promoting feminism, sexual liberation, and drug use while de-prioritizing or rejecting the labor movement and class struggle. Seen in this way, Thompson seems closer to the Old Left then the New Left. I don't have a source, so, for now, this is WP:OR. This reader was very surprised to see the following claim in this article: Thompson played a key role in the first New Left in Britain in the late 1950s. It's not wrong, but it does seem misleading or incomplete. Daask (talk) 13:34, 28 March 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Misplaced reference to a thesis on "Keynes from below"

The reference to "Coventry, C. J. (January 2023). Keynes From Below: A Social History of Second World War Keynesian Economics (PhD thesis)" in the first section of the article seems to be misplaced. E.P. Thompson is not even mentioned in this PhD thesis. Neither is "the Communist Party Historians Group", nor "historical materialism." And then, on the use of the expression "history from below", see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People's_history Mikaelbook (talk) 09:22, 30 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]