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Article: Review essay: re-membering the past.(The Long Sexual Revolution: English Women, Sex, and Contraception 1800-1975)(The Likes of Us: A Biography of the White Working Class)(Our Hidden Lives: The Remarkable Diaries of Post-War Britain)(The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes)(Book review)
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- Journal of Social History
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- September 22, 2006
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The Likes of Us. A Biography of the White Working Class. By Michael Collins (London: Granta Books, 2004. 274 pp.).
The Long Sexual Revolution. English Women, Sex, and Contraception 1800-1975. By Hera Cook (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. xiii plus 412 pp.).
Our Hidden Lives. The Remarkable Diaries of Post-War Britain. Edited by Simon Garfield (London: Ebury Press, 2004. 536 pp.).
The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes. By Jonathan Rose (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2001, ix plus 534 pp.).
How do we know what we know? Or, to hew more closely to the historian's point, how do we know what we remember? Is what we ...