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E. P. Thompson

Historian of The Making of the English Working Class (1963), a member of the Communist Party Historians' Group until 1956 and later a leader of the New Left and the peace movement.

Lived: 1924–1993
Also known as: E P Thompson · Edward Palmer Thompson · Edward Thompson · Edward P. Thompson
Authority records: Wikidata · VIAF · Library of Congress · GND · ISNI · BnF
Sources: Marxists Internet Archive; Wikipedia — E. P. Thompson; Wikidata — Q434160

Bibliography

First editions. A tick marks a work matched to a library catalogue record.

Year	Title	First published by	Records
1947	Fascist Threat to Britain✓	Communist Party, London	Open Library · WorldCat record
1948	The Railway✓ — an adventure in construction	British-Yugoslav Association, London	Open Library · WorldCat record
1955	William Morris✓ — romantic to revolutionary	Lawrence & Wishart, London	Open Library · WorldCat record
1960	Out of Apathy✓	Stevens, [London]	Open Library · WorldCat record
1963	The Making of the English Working Class✓	Pantheon Books	Open Library
1965	The Communism of William Morris✓ — A Lecture Given on 4th May 1959 in the Hall of the Art Workers' Guild, London	William Morris Society, London	Open Library · WorldCat record
1967	Making Working Class Spec	Pantheon	Open Library
1967	Time — work-discipline, and industrial capitalism.	[no publisher recorded]	Open Library
1968	Education and Experience✓	Leeds University Press, Leeds	Open Library
1970	Warwick University Ltd✓ — industry, management and the universities	Penguin, Harmondsworth	Open Library · Library of Congress record
1971	Unknown Mayhew — selections from the Morning Chronicle, 1849-1850	[no publisher recorded]	Open Library
1975	Albion's Fatal Tree✓	Pantheon Books, New York	Open Library · Library of Congress record
1975	Whigs and Hunters✓ — The Origins of the Black Act	Pantheon Books, New York	Open Library · WorldCat record
1976	Family and Inheritance✓	Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [Eng.]	Open Library · WorldCat record
1978	The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays✓	Merlin Press	Open Library · WorldCat record
1978	The State Versus Its "Enemies"✓	Merlin Press, London	Open Library
1979	Folklore Anthropology and Social History✓	John L. Noyce, Brighton	Open Library
1979	The Secret State✓	Independent Research Publications, London	Open Library · WorldCat record
1980	Protest and Survive✓	CND, London	Open Library
1980	Writing by Candelight	Humanities Press Intl	Open Library
1981	Human Rights and Disarmament✓	Spokesmanfor END	Open Library · Open Library
1982	Beyond the Cold War✓ — a new approach to the arms race and nuclear annihilation	Merlin Press jointly with END, London	Open Library · WorldCat record
1982	Exterminism and Cold War✓	NLB, London	Open Library · WorldCat record
1982	Zero Option✓	Merlin Press, London	Open Library · WorldCat record
1983	Infant and Emperor✓ — poems for Christmas	Merlin Press, London	Open Library · WorldCat record
1983	The Defence of Britain✓ — a sequel to Protest and survive	European Nuclear Disarmament and Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, London	Open Library · WorldCat record
1985	Double Exposure✓	Merlin Press, London	Open Library · WorldCat record
1985	Star Wars	Pantheon Books, New York	Open Library
1985	The Heavy Dancers✓	Merlin, London	Open Library · WorldCat record
1986	Mad Dogs✓ — The U.S. Raids on Libya	Pluto Press in association with European Nuclear Disarmament, London	Open Library · Library of Congress record
1988	The Sykaos Papers✓ — Being an Account of the Voyages of the Poet Oi Paz to the System of Strim ...	Pantheon Books, New York	Open Library · WorldCat record
1991	Customs in Common✓	New Press, New York	Open Library · WorldCat record
1993	"Alien Homage"✓ — Edward Thompson and Rabindranath Tagore	Oxford University Press, Delhi	Open Library · WorldCat record
1993	Witness Against the Beast✓ — William Blake and the Moral Law	New Press, New York	Open Library · WorldCat record
1994	Making History✓ — Writings on History and Culture	New Press, New York	Open Library · WorldCat record
1997	Beyond the Frontier✓ — the politics of a failed mission, Bulgaria 1944	Stanford University Press	Open Library · WorldCat record
1997	The Romantics✓ — England in a Revolutionary Age	New Press, New York	Open Library · WorldCat record
1999	Collected Poems✓	Bloodaxe Books, Newcastle upon Tyne [England]	Open Library · WorldCat record
2001	The Essential E.P. Thompson✓	New Press, New York	Open Library · WorldCat record

Editions in the catalogue

Editions of E. P. Thompson by year: 55 dated titles, 1939–2026, most in 1978 (5). Lines mark died 1993.

The figures by decade

Decade	Titles
1930s	1
1940s	1
1950s	1
1960s	6
1970s	12
1980s	18
1990s	5
2000s	1
2010s	7
2020s	3

Year	Title	Author(s)	Publisher	Language
1939	You Have Lived Through All This✓ — An Anatomy of the Age	Edward Thompson	Victor Gollancz Ltd.	English
1947	Fascist Threat to Britain✓	E. P. Thompson	Communist Party of Great Britain	English
1955	William Morris✓Free — Romantic to Revolutionary	E. P. Thompson	Lawrence & Wishart	English
1961-01-01	William Morris✓Free — Romantic to Revolutionary	E. P. Thompson	Monthly Review Press	English
1962	William Morris✓Free — Romantic to Revolutionary	E. P. Thompson	Monthly Review Press	English
1963	The Making of the English Working Class✓ — Thompson, E[dward] Palmer	E. P. Thompson	Victor Gollancz Ltd.	English
1964	The Making of the English Working Class✓	Edward P. Thompson	Victor Gollancz Ltd.	English
1964	The Making of the English Working Class, by E. P. Thompson✓	E. P. Thompson	Victor Gollancz Ltd.	English
1965-01-01	The Making of the English Working Class✓	Edward P. Thompson	Victor Gollancz Ltd.	English
1971	The Unknow Mayhew✓ — Selections from the Morning Chronicle 1849-1850	Henry Mayhew, E. P. Thompson & Eileen Janes Yeo	Merlin Press	English
1976	William Morris✓Free — Romantic to Revolutionary Spectre	E. P. Thompson	Merlin Press	English
1977	La Formación histórica de la clase obrera✓ — Inglaterra 1780-1832 Ediciones de Bolsillo; 474	Edward Thompson	Editorial Laia	Spanish
1977	William Morris✓Free — Romantic to Revolutionary International Library of Social and Political Thought	E. P. Thompson	Merlin Press	English
1978	The Poverty of Theory & Other Essays✓	Edward Palmer Thompson	Merlin Press	English
1978	The Poverty of Theory & Other Essays✓	E. P. Thompson	Monthly Review Press	English
1978	The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays✓	Edward P. Thompson	Merlin Press	English
1978	The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays✓	Edward P. Thompson	Monthly Review Press	English
1978	The State Versus Its "Enemies"✓	E. P. Thompson	Merlin Press	English
1979	The Poverty of Theory & Other Essays✓	Edward Palmer Thompson	Merlin Press	English
1979	The Poverty of Theory & Other Essays✓	E. P. Thompson	Monthly Review Press	English
1979	The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays✓	Edward P. Thompson	Merlin Press	English
1980	The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays✓	Edward P. Thompson	Merlin Press	English
1980	Writing by Candlelight✓	E. P. Thompson	Merlin Press	English
1981	Protest and Survive✓	E. P. Thompson & Dan Smith	Monthly Review Press	English
1981	Writing by Candelight	E. P. Thompson	Monthly Review Press	Not recorded
1981	Writing by candlelight	E. P. Thompson	Merlin Press	Not recorded
1981	Writing by Candlelight	Edward Palmer Thompson	Monthly Review Press	Not recorded
1982	Beyond the Cold War✓	E. P. Thompson	Merlin Press	English
1982	Exterminism and Cold War✓	E. P. Thompson	Verso Books	English
1982	Zero Option✓	E. P. Thompson	Merlin Press	English
1983	Infant and Emperor✓ — Poems for Christmas	E. P. Thompson	Merlin Press	English
1983	Protest and Survive✓	Edward P. Thompson & Dan Smith	Monthly Review Press	English
1983	Writing by Candlelight✓	Edward P. Thompson & Gabriel	Merlin Press	English
1985	Double Exposure✓	E. P. Thompson	Merlin Press	English
1985	Star Wars✓ — Self-Destruct Incorporated	E. P. Thompson	Merlin Press	English
1985	Teoría política e historia✓ — Un debate con E.P. Thompson	Perry Anderson, E. P. Thompson & Eduardo Terrén	Siglo XXI Editores	Spanish
1985	The Heavy Dancers✓	E. P. Thompson	Merlin Press	English
1987	Exterminism and Cold War	E. P. Thompson	Verso Books	English
1989	Two Eighteenth Century Poems✓	Stephen Duck, Mary Collier, E. P. Thompson & Marian Sugden	Merlin Press	English
1991	Customs in Common✓	E. P. Thompson	Merlin Press	English
1994	Persons & [and] Polemics✓ — Historical Essays	Edward Palmer Thompson	Merlin Press	English
1994	Persons & Polemics✓ Persons and Politics	Edward P. Thompson	Merlin Press	English
1995	The Poverty of Theory, or an Orrery of Errors✓Free — Or an oreery of errors	E. P. Thompson	Merlin Press	English
1997	The Romantics✓ — England in a Revolutionary Age	E. P. Thompson	Merlin Press	English
2009	The Unknown Mayhew✓ — Selections from the Morning Chronicle, 1849 - 1850	Henry Mayhew & Edward P. Thompson	Merlin Press	English
2010	Customs in Common✓	E. P. Thompson	Merlin Press	English
2011	Albion's Fatal Tree✓ — Crime and Society in Eighteenth-Century England	Douglas Hay, Peter Linebaugh, John Rule, E. P. Thompson & Calvin Winslow	Verso Books	English
2012	Más allá de la frontera✓ — La política de una misión fracasada: Bulgaria, 1944	E. P. Thompson	El Viejo Topo	Spanish
2014	E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left✓ — Essays & Polemics	Edward Palmer Thompson & Calvin Winslow	Lawrence & Wishart	English
2014	E.P. Thompson and the Making of the New Left✓ — Essays and Polemics	Edward Palmer Thompson & Calvin Winslow	Monthly Review Press	English
2015	On Chartism	Dorothy Thompson, Stephen Roberts & E. P. Thompson	Verso Books	English
2019	William Morris✓ — Romantic to Revolutionary	Edward Palmer Thompson	Merlin Press	English
2023	Les romantiques✓ — L'Angleterre à l'âge des révolutions Histoire	E. P. Thompson	Éditions Sociales	French
2023	Romantiques✓ — L'Angleterre à l'âge des révolutions Histoire	E. P. Thompson	Éditions Sociales	French
2026	Les Romantiques✓ — L'Angleterre à l'âge des révolutions Histoire	E. P. Thompson	Éditions Sociales	French