'A passionate work of staggering ambition.'-Wall Street Journal It should be read with minute attention by all educationists and politicians: and, indeed, by anyone with an interest in the future of our civilization.'-The Sunday Telegraph 'Brilliantly readable.'-Philip Pullman, The Daily Mail It deserves its place alongside writers who have yielded important new insights into our cultural ancestry and who shed light on ourselves.'-Ian Jack, The Daily Telegraph 'Rose's book is a brilliant and often moving record. As you read it, the air fills with the voices of the long unheard.'-John Carey, The Sunday Times 'Vast in scope and absorbing in every detail. Drawing on workers' memoirs, social surveys, library registers and more, the author discovers which books people read, how they educated themselves and what they knew. This intriguing book provides an intellectual history of the British working classes from the pre-industrial era to the twentieth century.
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