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- ↑ E. P. Thompson, "History from Below", Times Literary Supplement, 7 April 1966, pp. 279–80.
- ↑ Wade Matthews (2013). The New Left, National Identity, and the Break-up of Britain. BRILL. pp. 20–21. ISBN 9789004253070.
- ↑ When the State Trembled 1442660228 Reinhold Kramer, Tom Mitchell - 2010 "It was Lucien Febvre who first used the phrase 'history from below' when in 1932 he observed that Albert Mathiez, a founding member of the Annales tradition, had sought 'histoire des masses et non de vedettes; histoire vue d'en bas en non ..."
- ↑ AL Morton Compendium of Communist Biographies, Graham Stevenson, Accessed Feb 2014
- ↑ Black, Jeremy; MacRaild, Donald M. (1 January 2016) [2007]. Studying History. Macmillan Education UK. ISBN 978-1-137-47860-3.
- ↑ Thompson, Edward P. (1966), "History from Below'", The Times Literary Supplement
- ↑ Black and MacRaild wrote that Thompson's 1966 essay, 'History from below', in the Times Literary Supplement "was the real starting point, not only of the term, but of attempts to define it, to intellectualise about it, and to give it a coherent agenda...."
- ↑ Howard Zinn (1980). A People's History of the United States . London and New York: Longman.
- ↑ chapter: Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress
- ↑ Guy Beiner, Forgetful Remembrance: Social Forgetting and Vernacular Historiography of a Rebellion in Ulster (Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 9.
