Metadata: Samuel, Raphael Elkan (1934-1996)
Collection
- Country:
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- Holding institution:
- Bishopsgate Institute
- Holding institution (official language):
- Bishopsgate Institute
- Postal address:
- 230 BishopsgateLondonGreater LondonUnited KingdomEC2M 4QH
- Phone number:
- Telephone: +44 (0)20 7392 9200
- Web address:
- https://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/archives
- Reference number:
- SAMUEL
- Title:
- Samuel, Raphael Elkan (1934-1996)
- Title (official language):
- Samuel, Raphael Elkan (1934-1996)
- Creator/accumulator:
- Samuel, Raphael Elkan, 1934-1996, historian
- Date(s):
- 1940/1996
- Language:
- English
- Extent:
- 418 boxes, 140 cassettes
- Scope and content:
- Papers of historian Raphael Samuel, 1934-1996, notably including working papers on the heritage of East London; doctoral notes on the Victorian poor; an ethnographic contribution to Michael Young's pioneering sociological research on family and kinship in Bethnal Green; records concerning the East End underworld gathered through the oral history of Arthur Harding, criminal and Barnardo boy; printed and manuscript material, including notes, correspondence, publication drafts, photographs, slides, pamphlets, annotated newspaper and journal extracts concerning all aspects of Raphael Samuel's work, publications and career; 140 audio and video cassettes containing recordings of radio and television appearances and conversations with other historians, reels of film, photographs and index cards, c1950-1996.
- Administrative/biographical history:
- Born on London in 1934 into a Jewish family; educated at King Alfred's School, Hampstead, and Balliol College, Oxford, where he was tutored by and became friends with historian Christopher Hill; during this time he became a Marxist, joining the Communist Party and the Communist Party Historian's Group; the latter an organisation formed by E.P.Thompson, Christopher Hill, Rodney Hilton, Eric Hobsbawm, Maurice Dobb and others and which was responsible for founding the journal _Past and Present_, which aimed to pioneer the study of working class history; left the Communist Party, 1956, and was one of the founder editors, together with Stuart Hall and Charles Taylor, of what was soon to become the _New Left Review_; appointed Tutor in Sociology at Ruskin College, Oxford, 1962; launched a series of national workshops, starting in 1966, on topics previously neglected including women's history, the history of childhood, empire and patriotism, the changing definitions of nations and the cultural diversity of Britain. Participation in these workshops was to remain extremely popular into the 1970s and 1980s, and many of its contributors became initial writers for the _History Workshop Journal_, founded in 1975; appointed Professor at the University of East London in 1996, although died shortly after. His publications include: _Village Life and Labour_ (1975), _Miners, Quarrymen and Saltworkers_ (1977), _People's History and Socialist Theory_ (1981), _East End Underworld_ (1981), _Culture, Ideology and Politics_ (1983), _Theatres of the Left: 1880-1935_ (1985), _The Lost World of Communism_ (1986), _The Enemy Within: The Miners' Strike of 1984_ (1987), _Patriotism: The Making and Unmaking of British National Identity_ (1989), _Patriotsm: Minorities and Outsiders_ (1989), _The Myths We Live By_ (1990), _Theatres of Memory_ (1996) and _Island Stories: Unravelling Britain_ (1997).
- Access points: locations:
- London
- Access points: persons/families:
- Samuel, Raphael Elkan
- Access, restrictions:
- Apply to the Archivist.
- Finding aids:
- Online catalogue see https://internetserver.bishopsgate.org.uk/Details/archive/110000004
- Yerusha Network member:
- AIM25
- Author of the description:
- Entry created by Stefan Dickers.
- Bishopsgate Institute