Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Historians of 'Past and Present' (standing: Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm; Rodney Howard Hilton; Lawrence Stone; Sir Keith Vivian Thomas; seated: (John Edward) Christopher Hill; Sir John Elliott; Joan Thirsk) NPG 6518

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Stephen Frederick Godfrey Farthing

The founding of the historical journal Past and Present evolved from the friendship of a group of young Marxist historians in the late 1940s, its first edition appearing under the aegis of John Morris (d.1977) in 1952. The aim was broadly to give a platform to both Marxist and non-Marxist historians to air contemporary historical research and discussion.

The seven historians depicted have all had editorial roles in organising the journal, but were not gathered in one place as a group to be... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.