Dorothy Thompson

Dorothy Thompson taught in the School of History in the University of Birmingham, where she wrote a series of highly regarded books about Chartism and other topics in nineteenth-century British history-among them, Early Chartists , Chartism in Wales and Ireland , Outsiders: Class, Gender and Nation and Queen Victoria: Gender and Power . Her edited volume Over Our Dead Bodies: Women Against the Bomb testified to her engagement in post-war peace movements. For more on Dorothy and Edward Thompson...See more

Dorothy Thompson taught in the School of History in the University of Birmingham, where she wrote a series of highly regarded books about Chartism and other topics in nineteenth-century British history-among them, Early Chartists , Chartism in Wales and Ireland , Outsiders: Class, Gender and Nation and Queen Victoria: Gender and Power . Her edited volume Over Our Dead Bodies: Women Against the Bomb testified to her engagement in post-war peace movements. For more on Dorothy and Edward Thompson visit their website. See less