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Homage to Tom Maguire

In: Essays in Labour History

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  • E. P. Thompson

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As the writing of labour history becomes more professionalised, so the centre of interest shifts from front-line engagements to the disputes and strategical plans of G.H.Q. In the Colindale Library, the Public Record Office, the national archives of trade unions, the Place or Webb Collections, the techniques proper to a constitutional or economic historian can be employed. The dubious reminiscences of local worthies can be disregarded (unless required for ‘colour’), the regional skirmishes can be dismissed with an irritable footnote, and the historian can get down in earnest to national minute-books, Congress proceedings, intrigues among the leadership, and underhand political agreements.

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  • E. P. Thompson, 1960. "Homage to Tom Maguire ," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Asa Briggs & John Saville (ed.), Essays in Labour History, chapter 12, pages 276-316, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-15446-3_12
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-15446-3_12
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