Richard Hoggart,
in his famous book The Uses of Literacy published in 1957, set the agenda for an entire generation of attitudes, views and analysis about the way British society behaves. It was, and remains, a classic work. Hoggart has now completed an autobiographical trilogy: A Local Habitation (1988), A Sort of Clowning (1990) and now the third volume this year, An Imagined Life (all published by Ghatto and Windus).
In his final chapter Hoggart deals with issues highly relevant to contemporary British journalism and the BJR offers the following extract from that final chapter entitled:
