Andrew Thorpe
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1962 –
Who is Andrew Thorpe?
Andrew Thorpe is a British historian. He is Professor of Modern History and was Head of History at the University of Exeter, where he is now Director of Research for Humanities and Social Sciences.
He is a noted historian on the British Labour Party and the Communist Party of Great Britain particularly in the era of the Communist International, having been one of the few foreign, non-party historians to have had access to archives at Moscow following the fall of the Soviet Union.
January 2009 saw the publication of Professor Thorpe's new work entitled Parties at War, which examined all the major parties in Britain during the Second World War. The subject of the book has been the topic of his taught undergraduate module of the same name at the University of Exeter and is the product of over five years research.
Currently Professor Thorpe is working on the biography of Labour leader and Nobel prize winner Arthur Henderson.
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