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Steel City Readers : Reading for Pleasure in Sheffield, 1925-1955

An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool University Press website and the OAPEN library. Steel City Readers makes available, and interprets in detail, a large body of new evidence about past cultures and communities of reading. Its distinctive method is to listen to readers'...

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Main Author: Mary Grover
Format: Book
Published: Liverpool University Press 2023
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