Birthdate: February 3, 1924
Sun Sign: Aquarius
Birthplace: Oxford, England
Died: August 28, 1993
Edward Palmer Thompson, an English historian, writer, socialist, and peace campaigner, is renowned for his historical research on radical movements in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1966, he introduced the term “history from below” to characterize his social history approach, which significantly impacted the global history discipline. Thompson’s work, stemming from the Communist Party Historians Group, is a crucial contribution to social history in the latter twentieth century, influencing scholarship worldwide, particularly in Asia and Africa. History Today magazine acknowledged him as one of the most significant historians of the previous 60 years in 2011.
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