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A People's History of Classics explores the influence of the classical past on the lives of working-class people, whose voices have been almost completely excluded from previous histories of classical scholarship and pedagogy, in Britain and Ireland from the late 17th to the early 20th century.
This volume challenges the prevailing scholarly and public assumption that the intimate link between the exclusive intellectual culture of British elites and the study of the ancient Greeks and Romans and their languages meant that working-class culture was a 'Classics-Free Zone'. Making use of diverse sources of information, both published and unpublished, in archives, museums and libraries across the United Kingdom and Ireland, Hall and Stead examine the working-class experience of classical culture from the Bill of Rights in 1689 to the outbreak of World War II. They analyse a huge volume of data, from individuals, groups, regions and activities, in a huge range of sources including memoirs, autobiographies, Trade Union collections, poetry, factory archives, artefacts and documents in regional museums. This allows a deeper understanding not only of the many examples of interaction with the Classics, but also what these cultural interactions signified to the working poor: from the promise of social advancement, to propaganda exploited by the elites, to covert and overt class war.
A People's History of Classics offers a fascinating and insightful exploration of the many and varied engagements with Greece and Rome among the working classes in Britain and Ireland, and is a must-read not only for classicists, but also for students of British and Irish social, intellectual and political history in this period. Further, it brings new historical depth and perspectives to public debates around the future of classical education, and should be read by anyone with an interest in educational policy in Britain today.
Contents
Preface 1. Motives and Methods 2. The Invention of Classics 3. Working-Class Readers 4. 18th-Century Working-Class Poets 5. Classics and Class in Life-Writing 6. Working-Class Classics via the Visual Environment 7. Staging Class Struggle Classically 8. Dissenting Classics 9. Workers' Educational Classics 10. Classics & Class in Ireland 11. Scottish Working Classes 12. Caractacus and Lloyd-George's Recruiting Drive in Wales 13. Seditious Classicists 14. Underdog Professors 15. Ragged-Trousered Philologists 16. Hinterland Greek 17. Classical Underworlds 18. Class and the Classical Body 19. Gods and Heroes of the Proletariat 20. Shoemakers 21. Pottery Workers 22. Miners 23. Socialist and Communist Scholars 24. Soldiers: Dai and Diomedes on the Somme 25. Theatre Practitioners
