Willie Thompson

Background

Thompson, Willie was born on April 10, 1939 in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Education

Master of Arts in History, Aberdeen (Scotland) University, 1962. Certified teacher, Jordanhill College, Glasgow, Scotland, 1963. Doctor of Philosophy in Economic History, Strathclyde University, Glasgow, 1970.

Career

Teacher, Education Authority, Glasgow, 1963-1965; lecturer in history, Wigan Technology College, Lancashire, United Kingdom, 1969-1971; lecturer in history, Glasgow College Technology, 1971-1977; senior lecturer in history, Glasgow College Technology, 1977-1995; reader in history, Glasgow Caledonian U. (formerly Glasgow Polytech.), since 1995. Conference organizer Glasgow Caledonian U., since 1988.

Achievements

• Willie Thompson has been listed as a noteworthy historian by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

• book

  • The Good Old Cause: British Communism 1920-1991

    (Willie Thompson, a longstanding Communist Party of Great ...)

  • The Long Death of British Labourism

    (The author argues that the hierarchical and disciplined s...)

Membership

Organizer, speaker, editlr Communist Party of Gr. Britain, Glasgow and Wigan, 1962-1991. Member Educational Institute of Scotland University Lecturers' Association, Socialist History Society (editor since 1982), Institute Contemporary History, Amnesty International, Greenpeace.

Connections

Son of Gilbert Thomas and Robertha Agnes (Thomason) T. Married Noreen Isabel Butler, April 3, 1963 (separated 1981). Children: Anne (deceased 1973), Alan.

Father:

Gilbert Thomas Thompson

Mother:

Robertha Agnes (Thomason) Thompson

Spouse:

Noreen Isabel Butler

child:

Alan Thompson

child:

Anne Thompson (deceased 1973)