Thomas Lionel Hodgkin

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Thomas Lionel Hodgkin was a British historian and political activist best known for his influential scholarship on African history and his support for anti-colonial movements.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf historian
human
political activist
causeSupported African independence movements
decolonization
citizenship British
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
dateOfBirth 1910-07-29
dateOfDeath 1982-03-24
educatedAt Balliol College, Oxford NERFINISHED
employer University of Ghana
University of Oxford NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork African history
history of nationalism
political history
gender male
hasAcademicDiscipline African studies
history
hasRelative Dorothy Hodgkin
surface form: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
influenced African nationalist intellectuals
influencedBy Karl Marx
Vladimir Lenin
languageOfWorkOrName English
memberOf Communist Party of Great Britain
movement African nationalism
anti-colonialism
notableFor scholarship on African history
support for anti-colonial movements
notableWork African Political Parties
Nationalism in Colonial Africa
Nigerian Perspectives
occupation historian
political activist
university teacher
placeOfBirth Bromley NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Oxford
politicalAlignment Marxism
positionHeld Director of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana
residence Oxford
spouse Dorothy Hodgkin
surface form: Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin
studiesTopic African nationalist movements
colonialism in Africa
political parties in Africa

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Hodgkin hasNotableBearer Thomas Lionel Hodgkin
this entity surface form: Thomas Hodgkin
Hodgkin hasNotableBearer Thomas Lionel Hodgkin
Hodgkin hasNotableBearer Thomas Lionel Hodgkin
this entity surface form: Thomas Vere Hodgkin
Dorothy Hodgkin spouse Thomas Lionel Hodgkin