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Events, accolades mark the centenary of the birth of EP Thompson (m.1941)

This month marks the centenary of the birth of Corpus alumnus Edward Palmer (EP) Thompson (m.1941), historian, author and political activist.

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Thompson was a key figure of the left, a socialist critic and a long-time campaigner for peace and the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.

Thompson, who was born on 3 February 1924 in Oxford, matriculated at Corpus in 1941, but left a year later to join the army, serving in a tank unit in Italy.

After the war he returned to Corpus to study History. He was tutored by Fellow Kenneth Pickthorn, President of Corpus from 1937-44 and Conservative MP. Very much in contrast to his Tutor, Thompson was described by fellow student John Fitch (m.1941) as a 'red-hot socialist'.

Thompson graduated in 1946 and was thereafter critical of his Cambridge experience, saying in a 1992 interview with Penelope Corfield that he wasn't well-taught in Cambridge and "the less said about tha