Sexual Tories
Angus Calder, 17 May 1984
The Common People: A History from the Norman Conquest to the Present
by J.F.C. Harrison.
Croom Helm and Flamingo, 445 pp., £12.95, March 1984,0 7099 0125 9 Show More
by J.F.C. Harrison.
Croom Helm and Flamingo, 445 pp., £12.95, March 1984,
British Society 1914-45
by John Stevenson.
Allen Lane/Penguin, 503 pp., £16.95, March 1984,0 7139 1390 8 Show More
by John Stevenson.
Allen Lane/Penguin, 503 pp., £16.95, March 1984,
The World We Left Behind: A Chronicle of the Year 1939
by Robert Kee.
Weidenfeld, 369 pp., £11.95, April 1984,0 297 78287 8 Show More
by Robert Kee.
Weidenfeld, 369 pp., £11.95, April 1984,
Wigan Pier Revisited: Poverty and Politics in the Eighties
by Beatrix Campbell.
Virago, 272 pp., £4.50, April 1984,0 86068 417 2 Show More
by Beatrix Campbell.
Virago, 272 pp., £4.50, April 1984,
“... rate truth, and her historical sense collapsed chronology. I was moved to remember this by J.F.C. Harrison’s ‘coda’ to his fine new book: ‘As writers like Thomas Hardy have noted, there is a certain timelessness about the common people, which means that in the last resort their experience can be expressed by myth as well as by history.’ Yes, and the ... ”