Raphael Samuel

Raphael Samuel, a tutor at Ruskin College in Oxford, the trade union college, started the History Workshop movement in 1967, encouraging working people and students to research their own pasts, often through interviews. His collection Village Life and Labour, from 1975, and East End Underworld, built from conversations with Arthur Harding about crime in Bethnal Green, showed what recorded memory could add to documents. He founded History Workshop Journal in 1976.