Generation of scholars who, since the late 1930s, have made critical and commanding contributions to their respectives fields of historical enquiry and, comprehended as a historical and theoretical tradition, have significantly shaped not only the development of the historical discipline, especially the writing of social history, but also Marxist thought and radical-democratic and socialist historical consciousness.
The British Marxist historians have influenced work across the humanities and social sciences: literary and cultural studies; women's studies; labour, slavery and peasant studies; and even critical legal studies.
This generation includes Maurice Dobb, Dona Torr and Leslie Morton, Rodney Hilton, Christopher Hill, Eric Hobsbawm, George Rude, Edward Thompson, Dorothy Thompson, John Saville and Victor Kiernan.