After Samuel's death in 1996, Light assembled and donated his papers to create the Raphael Samuel Archive, now held by Bishopsgate Institute in London.
Light edited a posthumous volume of Samuel's essay, Island Stories (Verso 1998), adding over three hundred footnotes and a biographical preface on his writing methods; and published a collection of his essays from New Left Review, The Lost World of British Communism (Verso 2006) [REF].