Quote by E.P. Thompson
"One cannot be a historian of the 18th century without understanding something of its social character."
More from E.P. Thompson
"The making of the English working class was the making of a people, conscious of themselves as a class."
"History is not something distant and abstract. It is something we live and breathe every day."
"The poor have their own culture, their own values, their own way of looking at the world."
"We must rescue the poor stockinger, the Luddite cropper from the condescension of posterity."