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Author Scott-Brown, Sophie, author.

Title The histories of Raphael Samuel : a portrait of a people's historian / Sophie Scott-Brown.

Publication Info. Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, 2017.
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 265 pages) : illustrations
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ANU.Lives series in biography.
Summary In the first integrated biographical study of his work, this book situates British historian Raphael Samuel (1934--1996) 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 Workshop movement, Samuel championed the democratisation of history-making and practised an eclectic form of people's history in his own work. His unique approach was controversial, drawing impassioned responses from across the ideological spectrum, the most sustained critique often coming from his left-wing contemporaries. It is argued here that this compelling figure has been unjustly neglected and that he continues to offer important insights into the politics of history-making in a post-Marxist world.
Contents The ingrained activist: communism as a way of life, the communist party historian's group and Oxford student politics -- Reinventing the organiser: anti-authoritarianism, activist politics and the first New Left -- The workshop historian: Ruskin College and the early years of the History Workshop -- The secret life of Headington Quarry: people's history in the field -- The socialist historian? -- Stranger memories of who we really are: history, the nation and the historian.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-265).
Note Print version record.
Language English.
Access Open Access EbpS
Subject Samuel, Raphael.
Samuel, Raphael https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJp9mVXPcfCyQmv8CBHXBP
Historians -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Marxian historiography.
Historical materialism.
Social history.
Social Conditions
Historiographie marxiste.
Matérialisme historique.
Histoire sociale.
social history.
Biography and True Stories.
Biography: general.
Biography: historical, political and military.
British and Irish history.
European history.
History.
Humanities.
Regional and national history.
Historians
Historical materialism
Marxian historiography
Social history
Great Britain https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP
Indexed Term Biography
British history
British politics
Raphael Samuel
Genre/Form Biographies
Added Author Australian National University Press.
Other Form: Print version: Scott-Brown, Sophie. Histories of Raphael Samuel. Acton, A.C.T. : ANU Press, 2017 9781760460365 (OCoLC)948986909
ISBN 9781760460372 (electronic bk.)
1760460370 (electronic bk.)
9781760460365
1760460362
Standard No. AU@ 000057387275
AU@ 000060664648
GBVCP 1008668567

 
    
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