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Thomas Lionel Hodgkin Thomas Lionel Hodgkin ( 3 April 1910 – 25 March 1982 ) was an English Marxist historian of Africa who did more than anyone to establish the serious study of African history in the UK . He was married to the Nobel Prize-winning scientist Dorothy Hodgkin . Early life . Thomas Lionel Hodgkin was born at Mendip House , Headington Hill , near Oxford . Named after his grandfather , the historian Thomas Hodgkin , he was the son of Robert Howard Hodgkin , Provost of Queens College , Oxford , and Dorothy Forster Smith , daughter of the historian Alfred Lionel Smith . Hodgkin was an exhibitioner at Winchester and from 1928 to 1932 a classics scholar at Balliol College , Oxford , where he also held a Higgs Memorial scholarship in English . He obtained a Second in Classical Moderations in 1930 and a First in Literae Humaniores or Greats ( philosophy and ancient history ) in 1932 . Palestine and the WEA . A senior demyship at Magdalen College , Oxford , 1932–33 , enabled him to travel ; he spent the years on John Garstangs archaeological dig at Jericho . From 1934 to 1936 Hodgkin was in the Palestine civil service , for some time being a personal secretary to High Commissioner Wauchope . There , Hodgkin started to become critical of British imperialism . Resigning from the colonial service after the April 1936 Arab uprising , he hoped to stay in Palestine but was ordered to leave by the British administration . Returning to London , where he stayed with his fathers cousin Margery Fry and joined the Communist Party , Hodgkin briefly tried training as a schoolteacher , before entering adult education . He met and married Dorothy Crowfoot in 1937 . In 1939 , declared ineligible for military service on medical grounds ( he suffered from narcolepsy ) , Hodgkin became a Workers Educational Association tutor in north Staffordshire . In September 1945 he became Secretary of the Oxford Delegacy for Extra-Mural Studies , and a Balliol fellow . Travels in Africa . He first visited the Gold Coast in 1947 , and became interested in African history as well as the contemporary problems of African nationalism . Befriending Kwame Nkrumah in 1951 , he published a pamphlet for the Union of Democratic Control supporting independence for the Gold Coast . In 1952 Hodgkin left his Oxford job and travelled in Africa . After publishing Nationalism in Colonial Africa ( 1956 ) , he became interested in Africas Islamic history . Northwestern , McGill , Legon and Balliol . He took part-time appointments at Northwestern University ( Illinois ) and McGill University ( Montreal ) , was joint secretary of a commission on reform of Ghanas universities , and in 1962 returned to Ghana for three years to head the new Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana . From 1965 until his 1970 retirement he was Lecturer in the Government of New States at Oxford University . Works . - Hating Italy , Red Rags : Essays of Hate from Oxford , ed . R . C . Carr , London : Chapman & Hall , 1933 , 161–176 - Nationalism in Colonial Africa ( Frederick Muller , 1956 . 2nd edn , 1957 . E-Book 2008 ) - ( ed. ) Nigerian Perspectives ( Oxford University Press , 1960 . 2nd edn , 1975 ) - African Political Parties ( Penguin Books , 1961 ) - Vietnam : the Revolutionary Path ( Macmillan , 1981 ) Sources . - C . Allen and R . W . Johnson , eds. , African Perspectives : papers in the history , politics and economics of Africa presented to Thomas Hodgkin ( Cambridge University Press , 1970 ) - Michael Wolfers , Thomas Hodgkin : Wandering Scholar - A Biography ( Merlin Press , 2007 ) - E . C . Hodgkin ( ed. ) , Thomas Hodgkin . Letters from Palestine , 1932-36 ( Quartet Books , 1986 ) - Michael Wolfers & Elizabeth Hodgkin ( eds ) , Thomas Hodgkin : Letters from Africa , 1947-56 ( HAAN Publishing , 2000 )