TY  - BOOK
AU  - Scott-Brown, Sophie
AB  - 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.
DO  - 10.22459/hrs.05.2017
ID  - OAPEN ID: 631218
ID  - OAPEN ID: OCN: 993676485
KW  - british history
KW  - raphael samuel
KW  - biography
KW  - british politics
KW  - Communism
KW  - London
KW  - Socialism
KW  - Working class
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/768b3fbd-fe00-4b34-8996-6a5b54b59342/631218.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31334
PB  - ANU Press
PY  - 2017
TI  - The Histories of Raphael Samuel : A portrait of a people's historian
ER  - 
