Montgomery Fellow

E. P. Thompson, rioted British social historian, the man considered the leader of the anti-nuclear movement in Western Europe, came to Dartmouth on March 29 to open a ten-day visit as a Montgomery Fellow. In addition to a public lecture on "Disarmament and the Division of Europe," he was scheduled to participate in several courses, including those considering nuclear weapons control, environmental studies, international organization, and policy studies. He will return to Dartmouth for the entire summer term, again as a Montgomery Fellow.

For the summer term, Thompson will be accompanied by his wife Dorothy, who lectures in history at the University of Birmingham. A distinguished scholar in her own right, she has published The EarlyChartists and next year will bring out two volumes on the British Chartist movement.

Thompson drafted the European Nuclear Disarmament appeal of February 1980 and, with his wife, is a member of the END coordinating committee. Much of his recent writing is related to this interest. Among his well-known books is Making of the English Working Class (1963), which was hailed as one of the most original works by any recent English historian.