Down and Out in London
David Cannadine
- Rothschild Buildings: Life in an East End Tenement Block 1887-1920 by Jerry White
Routledge, 301 pp, £11.50, September 1980, ISBN 0 7100 0603 9 - East End Underworld: Chapters in the Life of Arthur Harding by Raphael Samuel
Routledge, 355 pp, £11.50, April 1981, ISBN 0 7100 0725 6
One of the most spectacular examples of embourgeoisement in the 1970s was the transformation of the history workshops held at Ruskin College, Oxford from ephemeral, marginal, near-clandestine activities into a permanent, recognised and well-publicised part of the contemporary historical scene. The most significant evidence of this development was the appearance of the History Workshop Journal, the first issue of which has already become something of a collector’s item, and the launching of the History Workshop Series, of which these books are, respectively, the fifth and seventh to appear. With two such flourishing enterprises under way, with several of its most illustrious comrades established among the ivory towers and high tables of Oxbridge colleges, and with Raphael Samuel providing indefatigable leadership in inimitable style, the history workshop movement seems set fair to follow the path already blazed by that earlier enfant terrible, Past and Present, from mutinous opposition to respectable dissent.
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Vol. 3 No. 13 · 16 July 1981 » David Cannadine » Down and Out in London (print version)
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