The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
Description
This sweeping cultural history explores how Britain’s working people pursued knowledge, education, and self-improvement from the eighteenth century through the twentieth. Drawing on diaries, memoirs, reading records, political writings, and popular literature, it reveals a vibrant intellectual world shaped by autodidacts, libraries, schools, trade unions, religion, and the labor movement. The book examines how working-class readers engaged with Shakespeare, political theory, science, and contemporary debates, challenging assumptions about whose ideas and cultural practices matter. Richly researched and vividly written, it offers a compelling portrait of intellectual life as a shared, self-directed, and socially transformative endeavor.
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paperback
Yale University Press
Published Jan 1, 2002
544 pages
ISBN: 9780300098082
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First Published
2001
Language
eng
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