- John Saville
John Saville (born 1916) is a Greek-British Marxist historian, now
Professor emeritus of theUniversity of Hull .He was a member of the
Communist Party of Great Britain , leaving in 1956. From being in theCommunist Party Historians Group , he became one of the supporters of the "New Reasoner " group. He became Professor of Economic History at the University of Hull in 1973, where he had taught since 1947. He was associated with the "Socialist Register" (editor withRalph Miliband ) and the multi-volume "Dictionary of Labour Biography".Early life
He was born Orestes Stamatopoulos in 1916, in
Gainsborough, Lincolnshire to a Greek father and British mother [ [http://www.camdennewjournal.co.uk/archive/r120603_5.htm Camden New Journal] ] . He took the surname Saville from his mother's second husband, and was brought up inRomford . He studied at theLondon School of Economics , where he joined the CPGB.Works
* "Ernest Jones, Chartist: Selections from the Writings and Speeches of Ernest Jones" (1952) editor
* "Democracy and the Labour Movement: Essays in Honour ofDona Torr " (1954) editor
* "Rural Depopulation in England and Wales, 1851-1951" (1957)
* "The Age of Improvement 1783-1867" (1964) editor withAsa Briggs
* "TheRed Republican &The Friend of the People : A Facsimile Reprint" (1966, 2 volumes) editor
* "Essays in Labour History 1886-1923" (1967) editor with Asa Briggs, and later volumes
* "A Selection of the Political Pamphlets ofCharles Bradlaugh " (1970) editor
* "Selection of the Social and Political Pamphlets ofAnnie Besant " (1970), editor
* "Dictionary of Labour Biography" (from 1972, ten volumes) editor withJoyce M. Bellamy ,David E. Martin
* "Marxism and History" (1974) Inaugural Lecture, University of Hull, 6 November 1973
* "Working Conditions in the Victorian Age: Debates on the Issue from 19th Century Critical Journals" (1973)
* "Marxism and Politics" (1977) editor withRalph Miliband ,Marcel Liebman ,Leo Panitch
* "Ideology and the Labour Movement: Essays Presented to John Saville" (1979)David Rubinstein
* "Nottinghamshire Labour Movement, 1880-1939" (1985) withPeter Wyncoll
* "1848 : The British State And The Chartist Movement" (1987)
* "The Labour Movement in Britain" (1988)
* "The Labour Archive at the University of Hull" (1989)
* "The Politics of Continuity: British Foreign Policy and the Labour Government, 1945-46" (1993)
* "The Consolidation of the Capitalist State, 1800-1850" (1994)
* "Memoirs from the Left" (2002)References
External links
* [http://www.isj.org.uk/index.php4?id=66issue=105 "A Life on the Left"] , Review of Memoirs from the Left.
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