A full bibliliography is provided in James Crossley, A. L. Morton and the Radical Tradition (Palgrave Macmillan, 2025), and Victor N. Paananen, British Marxist Criticism (Routledge, 2000), 101–144. The following is a selection of some (and only some) of his most significant works. Links are given to free online versions.
Books
A People’s History of England. Gollancz, 1938; new edition, Lawrence and Wishart, 1948.
Language of Men. Cobbett Press, 1945.
The English Utopia. Lawrence and Wishart, 1952.
Morton, A. L., and George Tate. The British Labour Movement 1770–1920. Lawrence and Wishart, 1956.
The Everlasting Gospel: A Study in the Sources of William Blake. Lawrence and Wishart, 1958.
Socialism in Britain. Lawrence and Wishart, 1963.
The Matter of Britain: Essays in a Living Culture. Lawrence and Wishart, 1966.
The World of the Ranters: Religious Radicalism in the English Revolution. Lawrence and Wishart, 1970.
Collected Poems. Lawrence and Wishart, 1976.
Edited Collections
The Life and Ideas of Robert Owen. Lawrence and Wishart, 1962.
Three Works by William Morris: A Dream of John Ball, The Pilgrims of Hope, and News from Nowhere. Lawrence and Wishart, 1968.
Political Writings of William Morris. Lawrence and Wishart, 1973.
Freedom in Arms: A Selection of Leveller Writings. Lawrence and Wishart, 1975.
Heinemann, Margot, and Willie Thompson, editors. History and the Imagination: Selected Writings of A. L. Morton. Lawrence and Wishart, 1990.
Pamphlets*
The Story of the English Revolution. Communist Party, 1949.
Get Out! Communist Party of East Anglia, 1953.
The Arts and the People. Lawrence and Wishart, 1965.
When the People Arose: The Peasants’ Revolt of 1381. CPGB, 1981.
Morton, A. L., with Christopher Hill, Willie Thompson, and Vivien Morton. 1688: How Glorious was the Revolution? Our History, 1988.
*Some essays and articles were republished as pamphlets.
Essays and Articles
“Notes on the Poetry of Mr Eliot.” The Decachord 2 (1927): 209–218.
“Poetry and Property in a Communist Society.” The Criterion 12.46 (1932): 45–53.
“Culture and Leisure.” Scrutiny I.4 (1933): 324–26.
“Communism and Morality.” In Christianity and the Social Revolution, 329–355. Edited by John Lewis, Karl Polanyi, and Donald K. Kitchen. Gollancz, 1935.
“Their London and Ours,” Left Review 1.8 (May 1935): 333–34.
“What an Admirable People!” Left Review 3.2 (March 1937): 113–114.
“French Revolutionaries and English Democrats.” Labour Monthly 21.9 (September 1939): 532–38.
“The Conscience of John Ruskin and the Paris Commune of 1871.” Our Time 7.11 (August 1948): 280–82.
“How the Bourgeoisie Won Power.” Modern Quarterly 5.2 (1949): 99–109.
“James Harrington: Revolutionary Theorist.” Communist Review (March 1949): 457–462.
“The Norfolk Rising.” Communist Review (July 1949): 602–608.
“Utopias Yesterday and Today.” Science & Society 17.3 (1953): 258–263.
“Socialist Humanism.” Communist Review (October 1953): 298–300.
“Laurence Clarkson.” Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology 26.3 (1954): 163–187.
“Sedgemoor—Myth and Reality.” Our History 16 (February 1955), updated in Our History: The Common People 1688–1800 20 (Winter 1960): 6–8.
“Genius on the Border: Charlotte Brontë 1816–55; Emily Brontë 1818–48; Anne Brontë 1820–49.” Marxist Quarterly 2.3 (July 1955): 157–72.
“Frances Clarkson.” Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology 27.1 (1955): 55.
[Anonymous]. “Cromwell in the English Revolution.” Our History 9 (Spring 1958): 1–23.
“Millennium and Utopia.” Marxism Today 2.8 (1958): 237–240.
“John Lanseter of Bury.” Proceedings of the Suffolk Institute of Archaeology 28.1 (1958): 29–53.
“The Place of Lilburne, Overton and Walwyn in the Tradition of English Prose.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 6.1 (1958): 5–13.
“Rediscovery of Chartism.” Marxism Today 4.3 (1960): 83–87.
“Religion and Politics in the English Revolution.” Marxism Today 4.12 (1960): 367–72.
“The Matter of Britain: The Arthurian Cycle and the Development of Feudal Society.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 8.1 (1960): 5–58.
К ДИСКУССИИ О ЧАРТИЗМЕ. «Новая и новеӥшая история» 3 (1960): 72–75.
“The Hero as Genealogist: General Plantagenet-Harrison.” The Yorkshire Archaeological Journal 40 (1961): 351–370.
“The Interpretation of Chartism.” Marxism Today 5.6 (1961): 177–83.
“Small Finds.” The Amateur Historian 5.5 (1962): 141–44, 150.
“The People in History.” Marxism Today 6.6 (1962): 179–182.
“Utopia as a Reflection of Social Ideas.” Marxism Today 6.11 (1962): 336–342.
“The Arts and the People.” In The Challenge of Marxism, 124–148. Edited by Brian Simon. Lawrence and Wishart, 1963.
“Shakespeare’s Idea of History.” Our History 33 (Spring 1964): 1–18.
“Shakespeare in a Changing World.” Marxism Today 8.4 (April 1964): 115–20.
“Shakespeare’s Historical Outlook.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 12.3 (1964): 229–43.
“T. S. Eliot—A Personal View.” Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik 14 (1966): 282–91.
“Rudyard Kipling Reestimated.” Marxism Today 10.1 (January 1966): 24–25.
“The World of Jonathan Swift.” Marxism Today 11.12 (December 1967): 366–74.
“Leveller Democracy—Fact or Myth?” Our History 51 (1968): 1–22.
“Britain and the Paris Commune.” Marxism Today 15 (1971): 82–89.
“The Centenary of the ‘Critique of the Gotha Programme’.” Marxism Today 19 (1975): 134–142.
“Iris Morley.” In Dictionary of Labour Biography: Volume 4, 128–133. Edited by Joyce M. Bellamy and John Saville. Macmillan, 1977.
“The Situation of Women in Shakespeare’s Time.” Shakespeare Jahrbuch 113 (1977): 30–34.
“Pilgrim’s Progress.” History Workshop Journal 5 (1978): 3–8.
“Islington CP.” History Workshop 10 (1980): 214.
“A. L. Lloyd: A Personal Memoir.” Englisch-Amerikanische Studien 4 (1984): 688–90.
“The 1930s.” Bulletin of the Marx Memorial Library 106 (Spring 1985): 20–26.
“Morris, Marx and Engels.” Zeitschrift fur Anglistik und Amerikanistik 33.2 (1985): 145–52.
“Shakespeares Auffasung der Ehre.” Shakespeare Jahrbuch 121 (1985): 44–49.
“Shakespeares Haltung zer Utopie.” Shakespeare Jahrbuch 123 (1987): 61–65.
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