Working-class education and social change in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Britain

History of Education

Volumn 36, Issue 4-5, 2007, Pages 483-496

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77. David Vincent asserts that this approach may involve a methodological arbitrariness; see Vincent, David. "The Progress of literacy." Victorian Studies (Spring 2003), 405-31.
78. For claims that Rose underestimated working-class sympathy for modernism see Christopher Hilliard. "Modernism and the Common Writer." The Historical Journal 48, no. 3 (2005): 769-97.
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