Sheila Rowbotham is a socialist-feminist historian and the author of many books — most recently the memoir, Promise of a Dream: Remembering the Sixties. She was interviewed on Jacobin</cite’s Casualties of History podcast, where she spoke about her history on the Left and her relationship with the eminent historians Edward and Dorothy Thompson.
In an interview, longtime socialist-feminist historian Sheila Rowbotham reflects on her decades on the Left, grappling with the reality of being a socialist from the middle class, and E. P. and Dorothy Thompson and the classic book The Making of the English Working Class.