Histories of Everyday Life

Posted on 2021-07-222021-07-22 by Laura Carter

Author : Laura Carter

Publisher : Oxford University Press

Release : 2021-07-22

ISBN-13 : 0198868332

Page : 288 pages

Rating : 4.5/5 from 332 voters

This book is a social history of popular history in Britain between the end of the First World War and the 1970s. It considers how ordinary people were taught history through books, in school and museums, and on BBC radio.

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