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"Brian Manning" was a leading British people/British Marxist historian, particularly of the English Civil War of the 17th century. A student of John Edward Christopher Hill/Christopher Hill, his best known work was The English People and the English Revolution.

Manning himself went to Lancing College, winning the Brackenbury Scholarship to Balliol College, Oxford. He was appointed to a lectureship at University of Manchester/Manchester in 1959, and, in 1980, became professor at the University of Ulster, becoming emeritus upon his retirement in 1992.

From its foundation until his move to Manchester, Manning served on the editorial board of the journal Past & Present, which been set up in 1952, largely by the Communist Party Historians Group, to elaborate "history from below" - the past as the story of generations of workers and peasants, women and men, struggling to make themselves and their world.