British Marxist historians gathered around the British Communist Party Historians Group after World War II. They applied Marxist theory to British history aiming at reviving the progressive tradition of the people s movement in Britain. Their works also served the labor movement led by the British Communist Party fighting hard to win the “battle of ideas”. As such, history played a vital role in this class struggle in the mind of man. The debate on English Civil War is a good example. The British Communist Party Historians Group regarded hist...
