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The 12 pages that link to E. P. Thompson, each with the reason it gives.

• Historical materialismRelated: Thompson showed how class develops through lived experience rather than existing only as an economic category.

• Social historyRelated: His work made workers’ agency central to social-historical explanation.

• Marxist historiographyRelated: He showed how class emerges through historical relationships and lived experience, not just economic position.

• Class consciousnessRelated: Thompson challenged accounts that treat class consciousness as an automatic result of economic position.

• PresentismRelated: His approach cautions against treating past people merely as imperfect versions of modern subjects.

• Working classRelated: His history treated class as a relationship formed through shared experiences and struggle.

• Stuart HallRelated: Hall’s New Left debates with Thompson exposed disagreements about class, culture, and political strategy.

• Cultural historyRelated: His history of working people challenged accounts centered on institutions and economic structures.

• Raymond WilliamsRelated: Thompson shared Williams’s commitment to working-class history and socialist cultural analysis.

• ImmigrationRelated: His work offers tools for understanding how migrant workers shape class and community.

• Eric HobsbawmRelated: Thompson belonged to the same generation of Marxist social historians, despite political and methodological differences.

• Academic historyRelated: His scholarship made lived experience central to social history.