In the early 1950s, 30-year-old university lecturer Richard Hoggart (father of Simon, brilliant political sketch-writer from The Guardian) started writing a book rooted in his 'northern urban working-class' childhood (in Leeds), that he thought about calling The Abuses of Literacy.
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The Uses of Literacy, by Richard Hoggart
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In the early 1950s, 30-year-old university lecturer Richard Hoggart (father of Simon, brilliant political sketch-writer from The Guardian) started writing a book rooted in his 'northern urban working-class' childhood (in Leeds), that he thought about calling The Abuses of Literacy.