F.M.L. Thompson

F.M.L. Thompson, a former director of the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London, is the editor of The Cambridge Social Hisory of Britain, 1750-1950 and of Landowners, Capitalists and Entrepreneurs.

Letter

Aristocratic Collectors

19 February 1987

F.M.L. Thompson writes: It is flattering to have drawn the fire of Nicholas Penny and Frank Herrmann, although a shade alarming that their aim has been made so erratic by their eagerness to show off their splendid toys. All the same, I am most grateful to them for generously making freely available some of their store of learning on art history and art collecting, and for supplying a select bibliography...

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Dismantling the class war

Paul Addison, 25 July 1991

In a chapter of the Cambridge Social History V. C. Gatrell describes the relationship between policing and crime. ‘More policing,’ he writes,‘leads to more reported crime; more...

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Victorian Consumers

Michael Mason, 16 February 1989

Christianity, in a literal sense, is not true. And every adult citizen, of either sex, is entitled to a vote. In modern Britain both these views are very widely believed. Our society is a secular...

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