Dorothy Thompson
Dorothy Thompson taught in the
School of History in the University of Birmingham, where she wrote a series of
highly regarded books about Chartism and other topics in nineteenth-century
British history—among them, Early Chartists, Chartism in Wales and
Ireland, Outsiders: Class, Gender and Nation and Queen
Victoria: Gender and Power. Her edited volume Over Our Dead
Bodies: Women Against the Bomb testified to her engagement in post-war peace movements.