David Goodway (born 1942) is a British historian and a respected international authority on Chartism and on anarchism and libertarian socialism.
He studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford.
[1] His doctoral thesis was supervised by the renowned historian Eric Hobsbawm and formed the basis of his first book on the history of Chartism in London, London Chartism, an acknowledged classic work on the subject.
[6] He has also written widely about writers in the British left libertarian tradition, such as William Morris, Alex Comfort, Herbert Read, George Orwell, Colin Ward and Maurice Brinton - notably in his book Anarchist Seeds Beneath the Snow: Left-Libertarian Thought and British Writers from William Morris to Colin Ward.
He wrote an appreciation of the anarchist journal Freedom when it stopped regular publication after almost 130 years.