Kind of a long title, but it’s well worth the time to look at this source. One of the major disappointments about the web here at Joe Briggs Place has been its silence in the matter of Edward Thompson. His death in 1993 was a loss, the dimensions of which remain unknown. The boss’s daughter has been asking about him and his legacy. the answers are long and detailed and have kept us up half the night spelunking down through the “library” and our memory banks for answers. I got up early this morning to retrieve a note she was preparing on The Making of the English Working Class. It was fine. I could not get back to sleep and made one last hail-Mary Google search for Thompson video. It would have been great if someone had brought a video camera to the event at York University chaired by Nick Rogers in March 1977. I tagged along with the boss and his partner. It was one of the great experiences of my life. They both said the same thing as we drove back to Toronto. No such luck. However, I did find the YouTube video from 1977. There are two other YT videos of Thompson from this seminar posted here and here. The video is scratchy black and white and the audio is no great shakes. It feels just about right.
The YT clips are part of the online and downloadable collection of Alan Macfarlane, who taught at the Department of Social Anthropology Cambridge University for thirty-four years and is now Emeritus Professor of Anthropological Science and a Life Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. You can find complete references to film of the seminar on 'Models of Change' held over two days on 20th and 21st March 1977 here. The participants in the four sessions, lasting eight hours in all, were: Peter Burke, Sally Humphreys, Ernest Gellner, Raphael Samuel, Joel Kahn, Maurice Bloch, Jack Goody, Maurice Godelier, Arnaldo Momiliagno, Edward Thompson, Keith Hopkins, Tom Bottomore, Edmund Leach. The seminar was convened by Alan Macfarlane and held in King's College, Cambridge.
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