num_pages: 544
description: This prizewinning book provides an intellectual history of the British working classes from the pre-industrial era to the twentieth century. Drawing on workers' memoirs, social surveys, library registers, and more, the author discovers how members of the working classes educated themselves, which books they read, and how their reading influenced them.
language: English
title: The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
titlecomplete: The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes
genres: Anthropology, Humanities, Research, History, Sociology, Politics, British Literature, Education, Nonfiction, Cultural
ratings_count: 227
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History
publisher: Yale University Press