British Marxists - William Morris, Eric Hobsbawm, Dorothy Hodgkin, Raymond Williams, Peter Taaffe, Timothy Mason, Derek Wall, Terry Eagle (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 74. Chapters: William Morris, Eric Hobsbawm, Dorothy Hodgkin, Raymond Williams, Peter Taaffe, Timothy Mason, Derek Wall, Terry Eagleton, C. L. R. James, George Rude, Tariq Ali, Paul Foot, Ian Parker, George Blake, Ralph Miliband, Gerald Cohen, Peter Mullan, Christopher Hill, Dona Torr, Chris Harman, Tom Mann, Claudia Jones, Sid French, Alex Callinicos, Alan Woods, Pete Glatter, George Julian Harney, Maurice Dobb, Nicholas Garnham, Kathleen Gough, Lindsey German, Chris Knight, John Rees, Ken Coates, Peter Gowan, Claire Fox, Peter Fryer, Duncan Hallas, John Saville, William Ash, Cliff Slaughter, Victor Kiernan, Maltman Barry, Harry McShane, Keith Flett, Al Richardson, David Widgery, Jack Fitzgerald, Peter Sedgwick, Lynn Walsh, Andrew Glyn, Tom Behan, Mike Hicks, Colin Barker, A. L. Morton, Harry Wicks, Ben Watson, Adam Buick, David Guest, Kate Hudson, John Molyneux, Pat Jordan, John Rose, Sam Bornstein, Paul McGarr, Donny Gluckstein, A. S. Albery. Excerpt: William Morris (24 March 1834 - 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement. He founded a design firm in partnership with the artist Edward Burne-Jones, and the poet and artist Dante Gabriel Rossetti which profoundly influenced the decoration of churches and houses into the early 20th century. As an author, illustrator and medievalist, he is considered an important writer of the British Romantic movement, helping to establish the modern fantasy genre; and a direct influence on postwar authors such as J.R.R. Tolkien. He was also a major contributor to reviving traditional textile arts and methods of production, and one of the founders of the SPAB, now a statutory element in the preservation of historic buildings in the UK. Morris wrote and published poetry, ..