I’ll be talking about The People at this exciting festival in London. You can book here
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Talk and Book Signing, Liverpool, 8 May
Talk and book signing, Liverpool, Waterstones Liverpool One 7-8pm.
I’ll be in conversation with Lynsey Hanley, the journalist and author of Estates.
Tickets are £3: for booking click here
Book Launch, The People, 10 April 2014
Nightwaves: working-class life and museums
On 4 April 2013 I appeared on Radio 3’s Nightwaves to discuss whether working-class life is properly represented in Britain’s museums. I argued that the middle-class perspective adopted by museums leads us to equate ideas of ‘quality’ and ‘taste’ with very partial, middle-class ways of seeing the world. You can listen to the programme here