Steel City Readers Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield, 1925-1955

Steel City Readers makes available, and interprets in detail, a large body of new evidence about past cultures and communities of reading. Its distinctive method is to listen to readers' own voices, rather than theorising about them as an undifferentiated group. Its cogent and engaging structur...

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Main Author: Grover, Mary (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Liverpool Liverpool University Press 2023
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