Discussed in The Dead Beat, page 178: by Martin Anderson, obit pages, London Independent: "Samuel had been a Marxist social historian at Oxford. In the mid-sixties he advanced the revolutionary idea that history didn't happen only to armies and kings, it also happened to ordinary people. His workshops on women's history, the history of childhood, and the culture of the immigrant had, as Samuel's obituarist in the Independent put it, "led people on journeys of self-discovery by blowing away the walls which separated working people from literary culture."
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