Peter Linebaugh

He is a member of the Midnight Notes Collective.

[1] He was a student of British labor historian E. P. Thompson, and received his Ph.D. in British history from the University of Warwick in 1975.

[3] About the second edition of his book The London Hanged—and about Linebaugh's unique place in the pantheon of 21st-century historians more broadly—Nicholas Lezard wrote, "For a start, this is a work of proper history: with all due respect to Dava Sobel .

and others who set out to make their histories entertaining and, crucially, popular by giving them a narrative, this is a work by a proper historian, whose only concession to the marketplace is the fact that he has made a connection that should command our attention.

"[4] Historian Robin Kelley praised Linebaugh's book The Magna Carta Manifesto (2008), arguing that there is "not a more important historian living today.