Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
E. P. Thompson
![E. P. Thompson](/img/nopic_profile.png)
Born: February 3, 1924
Died: August 28, 1993 (aged 69)
Bio: Edward Palmer Thompson, usually cited as E. P. Thompson, was a British historian, writer, socialist and peace campaigner.
Known for:
- The Making of the English Working Class (1963)
- Poverty of theory, or An orrery of errors
- Whigs and hunters
- Customs in common
- Witness Against the Beast (1993)