'Which books did the British working classes read - and how did they read them? How did they respond to canonical authors, penny dreadfuls, classical music, school stories, Shakespeare, Marx, Hollywood movies, imperialist propaganda, the Bible, the BBC, the Bloomsbury Group? What was the quality of their classroom education, as they experienced it? How did they educate themselves? What was their level of cultural literacy: how much did they know about politics, science, history, philosophy, poetry, and sexuality? Who were the proletarian intellectuals, and why did they pursue the life of the mind?' 'These intriguing questions - which until recently historians considered unanswerable - are addressed in The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes. The Whole Contention Concerning the Workers' Educational Association - Ch. Cultural Literacy in the Classic Slum - Ch. The Difference Between Fact and Fiction - Ch. We Do Not Fear Anarchy – We Invoke It : The First International and the Origins of the Anarchist Movement by Robert Graham £17.Ch.The Three Escapes of Hannah Arendt: A Tyranny of Truth by Ken Krimstein £14.99 Read more.Municipal Dreams : The Rise and Fall of Council Housing by John Boughton £9.99 Add to cart.Black British History : New Perspectives edited by Hakim Adi £18.99 Add to cart.Rose has written a work of staggering ambition.”-Daniel Akst, Wall Street Journal Winner of the SHARP Book History Prize, the American Philosophical Society’s Jacques Barzun Prize, and the British Council Prize cowinner of the Longman-History Today Book of the Year Prize for 2001 named one of the finest books of 2001 by The Economist. “An astonishing book.”-Ian Sansom, The Guardian “A passionate work of history. A new preface addresses the continuing relevance of the book amidst the upheavals of the present day. Drawing on workers’ memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, Jonathan Rose uncovers which books people read, how they educated themselves, and what they knew. This is a landmark intellectual history of Britain’s working classes from the preindustrial era to the twentieth century.

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