A. L. Morton



(Arthur) Leslie Morton ( 4 July 1903 – 23 October 1987) was a prolific English Marxist historian. He worked as an independent scholar; from 1946 onwards he was the Chair of the Historians Group of the Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB). He is best known for his classic A People's History of England, but he also did valuable work on William Blake and the Ranters, and for the study The English Utopia. Continue Reading »



A People's History of England


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