- 276 pages
- English
- PDF
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About this book
In the first integrated biographical study of his work, this book situates British historian Raphael Samuel (1934ā1996) in relation to his distinctive form of activist politics as they developed from youthful Cold War communism to the first British New Left, 1960s radicalism to the 1980s history wars.As the catalyst behind the History Work
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Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- The Ingrained Activist: Communism as a Way of Life, the Communist Party Historiansā Group and Oxford Student Politics
- Re-inventing the Organiser: Antiāauthoritarianism, Activist Politics and the First New Left
- The Workshop Historian: RuskinĀ College and the Early Years of the History Workshop
- The Secret Life of HeadingtonĀ Quarry: Peopleās History inĀ theĀ Field
- The Socialist Historian?
- Stranger Memories of Who We Really Are: History, the Nation andĀ the Historian
- Afterword: The Historianās WorkĀ inĀ Progress
- Select bibliography