Dorothy Thompson (historian)

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Dorothy Thompson (nee Towers) (born 1923) is the historian wife of the late E. P. Thompson. They got married in 1948. She is a leading expert on the Chartist movement. In January Dorothy Thompson, who taught in the School of History from 1968 to 1988, was presented with a festschrift, The Duty of Discontent. Edited by Owen Ashton, Stephen Roberts (both former students of Dorothy Thompson) and Robert Fyson, the volume consists of twelve essays, spanning the whole range of nineteenth and twentieth century British social history. The importance of Dorothy Thompson's writings on Chartism and Irish and women's history is recognised by scholars across the world. Her work, like that of her late husband, E P Thompson, has always been informed by a passionate radicalism and a deep sympathy for the underdog.

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Early Chartists (1971)
Bibliography of the Chartist movement, 1837-1976 (with J.F.C. Harrison) (1978)
The Chartist experience : studies in working-class radicalism and culture, 1830-60 (edited with James Epstein) (1982)
Over our dead bodies : women against the bomb (editor) (1983)
The Chartists (1984)
The Chartists : popular politics in the Industrial Revolution (1986)
British women in the nineteenth century (1989)
Outsiders : class, gender and nation (1993)
Queen Victoria: Gender & Power Virago Press (2001)