No. 6785Anonymous 28th August 2018 Tuesday 7:13 pm6785History of British activism and social movements
I'm looking for a book on the history of the UK with the same kind of political thrust as Howard Zinn's 'People's History of the United States'.
Failing that, any other recommendations on the history of activism, social movements, how public rights were won in the UK, etc.? The more comprehensive the better.
>>6785 EP Thompson's Making of The English Working Class is the place to start. Very good overview, similar to Zinn, and will likely prompt you to research particular figures/groups (in my case it was William Cobbett, Bronterre O'Brien and Owenism).
You'll want to look into the Chartist movement - Dorothy Thompson is highly respected there. Related to that is Jonathan Rose's The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, which has been recommended to me several times but I've yet to read.
I don't have a clue re: 20th century really though, sorry.
