John Saville

John Saville (born 1916) is a Greek-British Marxist historian, now Professor emeritus of the University of Hull.

He was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain, leaving in 1956. From being in the Communist 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 with Ralph 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 in Romford. He studied at the London 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 of Dona Torr" (1954) editor
* "Rural Depopulation in England and Wales, 1851-1951" (1957)
* "The Age of Improvement 1783-1867" (1964) editor with Asa Briggs
* "The Red 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 of Charles Bradlaugh" (1970) editor
* "Selection of the Social and Political Pamphlets of Annie Besant" (1970), editor
* "Dictionary of Labour Biography" (from 1972, ten volumes) editor with Joyce 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 with Ralph Miliband, Marcel Liebman, Leo Panitch
* "Ideology and the Labour Movement: Essays Presented to John Saville" (1979) David Rubinstein
* "Nottinghamshire Labour Movement, 1880-1939" (1985) with Peter 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.