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A People's History of Classics - Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939 (Paperback)
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A People's History of Classics - Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939 (Paperback)
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A People's History of Classics explores the influence of the
classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices
have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of
classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the
late 17th to the early 20th century. This volume challenges the
prevailing scholarly and public assumption that the intimate link
between the exclusive intellectual culture of British elites and
the study of the ancient Greeks and Romans and their languages
meant that working-class culture was a 'Classics-Free Zone'. Making
use of diverse sources of information, both published and
unpublished, in archives, museums and libraries across the United
Kingdom and Ireland, Hall and Stead examine the working-class
experience of classical culture from the Bill of Rights in 1689 to
the outbreak of World War II. They analyse a huge volume of data,
from individuals, groups, regions and activities, in a huge range
of sources including memoirs, autobiographies, Trade Union
collections, poetry, factory archives, artefacts and documents in
regional museums. This allows a deeper understanding not only of
the many examples of interaction with the Classics, but also what
these cultural interactions signified to the working poor: from the
promise of social advancement, to propaganda exploited by the
elites, to covert and overt class war. A People's History of
Classics offers a fascinating and insightful exploration of the
many and varied engagements with Greece and Rome among the working
classes in Britain and Ireland, and is a must-read not only for
classicists, but also for students of British and Irish social,
intellectual and political history in this period. Further, it
brings new historical depth and perspectives to public debates
around the future of classical education, and should be read by
anyone with an interest in educational policy in Britain today.
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