A local habitation : life and times

Author(s)

• Hoggart, Richard

Bibliographic Information

A local habitation : life and times

Richard Hoggart

（Oxford letters & memoirs）

Oxford University Press, 1989, c1988-

• v. 1

Note

Includes index

Contents of Works

• v. 1. 1918-40

Description and Table of Contents

Description

First published more than thirty years ago, this is the first part of Richard Hoggart's autobiography, tracing his early schooling, the friends he met and the mentors he admired and ends when, having obtained a degree from Leeds University, he decides to head off travelling. It describes the situation of working-class England between the wars and life in the back-to-backs in Hunslet. Hoggart's books include "The Uses of Literacy", "Speaking to Each Other", "An idea and its Servant", "An English Temper" and "An Idea of Europe", with Douglas Johnson.

Table of Contents

• St. James's
• Potternewton
• Newport Street
• Hunslet, Holbeck and beyond
• interlude - Leeds at large
• Jack Lane
• Cockburn
• university.

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Details

• NCID: BA10157115
• ISBN:
  • 019282693X
• LCCN: 89016201
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: v.
• Size: 20 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PR55.H6
  • DC20 : 820.7/1/141
  • DC20 : B
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Hoggart, Richard, 1918-
  • LCSH : English teachers -- Great Britain -- Biography
  • LCSH : Working class -- England -- Leeds -- History -- 20th century
  • LCSH : Leeds (England) -- Social life and customs
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA04294097