Review: The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
User Review - Abailart - GoodreadsMeticulously research, this provides a reservoir of source material to follow up. The highly readable themes cohere nicely. There are revelations of our near working class history in every chapter ... Read full review
Review: The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
User Review - Chas Bayfield - GoodreadsTHis is an inspirational book about poor people pulling themselves up by their bootstraps; people who didn't leave it to fate or governments to help them along but who took matters into their own ... Read full review
Review: The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
User Review - Malcolm - GoodreadsHumbling (methodologically for the historian), and impressive (in its scholarship for that same historian): me in both cases. Through detailed analyses of things such as library stock and lending ... Read full review
Review: The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
User Review - Ed - GoodreadsA monumental book, full of the most amazing new insights. A sort of intellectual roller coaster ride through the period 1850 to 1950, mainly focused on Britain but with asides to the US and Europe ... Read full review
Review: The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
User Review - Jules Evans - GoodreadsI loved this. Fascinating and heartening to read about self-education and mutual improvement clubs in the working class in the 19th and 20th centuries. Brilliant book. Read full review
Review: The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
User Review - Deborah - GoodreadsI especially like a few thoughts from this book: "One cannot think without using some kind of frame, no more than a computer can work without a program... literature, by suggesting a wealth of ... Read full review
Review: The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
User Review - Steve - GoodreadsAn avalanche of evidence that in the preTV world of the 19th and early 20th centuries many of the working class had a thriving self-education ethos, centred on the classics. Read full review
Review: The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
User Review - Kaycee Roberts - GoodreadsI never write reviews, but I know this is an odd book to add to my shelf and so I wanted to clarify. (I usually leave most academic or research-based nonfiction off of my list here.) Rose's argument ... Read full review
Review: The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
User Review - Quirkyreader - GoodreadsSee my review on my book blog: http://quirkyreader.livejournal.com/1... Read full review
Review: The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
User Review - Sharon - GoodreadsThis is a very readable, absolutely fascinating look at what the British working classes were reading and learning from the 1700s to the mid-20th century. The author discusses what books and plays ... Read full review
