This book argues that British working-class urban culture was silenced in the period 1900 - 1950 and that the effects of this are still felt.
The style is a cross between lecture sli.
The effects in my own life are picked up from the fifties onwards and some of the fightback against the hegemony of silencing is shown often with graphic pages.
The agencies of this silencing were state education, the BBC Radio and the commercialisation of working class cultural institutions (from 1850).
This book argues that British working-class urban culture was silenced in the period 1900 - 1950 and that the effects of this are still felt