George
Rudé was born in 1910. After the war Rudé joined E.
P. Thompson, Christopher Hill, Eric
Hobsbawn,
Raphael Samuel, George
Rudé, John Saville, Dorothy Thompson, Edmund Dell, Victor
Kiernan and Maurice Dobb in forming the Communist Party Historians'
Group.
In
1952 members of the Communist Party Historians' Group founded the
journal, Past and Present. Over
the next few years the journal pioneered the study of working-class
history.
As
a member of the Communist Party Rudé
was blacklisted and was unable to obtain employment in the university
system. He was for many years a teacher of modern languages in secondary
schools in England. Later he obtained university posts in Australia
and Canada.
Books by Rudé
include The Crowd in the French Revolution
(1959), Wilkes and Liberty (1962),
The Crowd in History (1964),
Revolutionary Europe: 1783-1815
(1969). In
1969 Rudé co-wrote Captain Swing
with Eric
Hobsbawn.
Other
books by Rudé
include Paris and London in the 18th Century
(1970), Hannoverian London: 1714-1808
(1971), Robespierre (1975), Ideology
and Popular Protest (1980), Europe
in the 18th Century (1985), The
Face of the Crowd (1988) and The
French Revolution (1989).
George
Rudé died
in 1993.
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