A brilliant follow-up to ‘The Underprivileged’ by this investigative journalist, sociologist and writer with a whopping big social conscience.

As before, interview and analysis are interwoven to give a “critical and subjective appraisal of some of the beliefs and attitudes of our [British] society.” Seabrook chooses 200 inhabitants of the northern English city of Blackburn for his survey. The year was 1969. Unlike ‘The Underprivileged’, the interviews, which take up most of the book, were with a cross-section of
the local population.

A useful chunk of live historical evidence.