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Article: Obituary: Professor Edward Thompson

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Edward Arthur Thompson, classicist and historian: born Waterford, Ireland 22 May 1914; Lecturer in Classics, Trinity College Dublin 1939-41, University College Swansea 1941-45, King's College London 1945-48; Professor of Classics, Nottingham University 1948-79 (Emeritus); books include A History of Attila and the Huns 1948, The Early Germans 1965, The Goths in Spain 1969, Romans and Barbarians 1982, Who was Saint Patrick? 1985; married 1945 Thelma Phelps (one son, one daughter; marriage dissolved 1958), 1964 Hazel Casken (one daughter); died Nottingham 1 January 1994.

EDWARD THOMPSON, a pioneer of the study of Late Antiquity in the English-speaking world, was a scholar of extraordinarily ...

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