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History for the Working Classes: Politics, Education and the Uses of the Industrial Past in Britain, 1884-1985 book cover

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History for the Working Classes Politics, Education and the Uses of the Industrial Past in Britain, 1884-1985

By Alexander Hutton Copyright 2027
328 Pages
by Routledge

This book examines how working-class people studied, wrote, and engaged with social and economic history from the late nineteenth century through to the 1980s. This widespread and profound engagement with history was foundational to working-class conceptions of politics and society, and that the political culture of British left-wing politics and the trade union movement cannot be properly... Read more

Introduction. An Unofficial National Historiography  Part One: The Uses of History, 1884-1926  1. History and the Labour Movement  2. Historical Visions of the Radical Left  3. Different Classes: Teaching History Beyond the Labour Movement  Part Two: The Great Tradition of Adult Education  4. History and the Adult Education Movement, 1900-1945  5. The Challenges of Postwar British Adult Education, 1945-1980  Part Three. British Socialism and its Pasts, 1920-1985  6. From the Classroom to the Streets: History and the Communist Party, 1920-1945  7. The Postwar Communist Party and the Problems of History  8. Making and Unmaking History Across a Changing Left, 1956-1985  Conclusion

Biography

Alexander Hutton completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge. He has worked as a Research Associate on the AHRC project Redress of the Past: Historical Pageants in Britain and was a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at King’s College London.

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