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.
- ISBN10 019282693X
- ISBN13 9780192826930
- Publish Date 19 October 1989 (first published 22 September 1988)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 13 October 1994
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Imprint Oxford Paperbacks
- Edition New edition
- Format Paperback (B-Format (198x129 mm))
- Pages 237
- Language English