Comrades,
The magisterial award winning book by Jonathan Rose 'The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes' is one of those instrumental means by which you come to understand how central Ruskin College has been in the making of cultural and political identity of the working class in the UK.
Indeed, as the title of this post identifies, it is impossible to write a credible, legitimate history of the emancipatory role of the education, and of independent working class education, in the long trajectory of social development in the UK, without an authoratative recogition of the role of Ruskin College.
You will be pleased to know that two copies of this 2001 publication reside in the College library, although sadly not as borrowed or read as it should be, but still it rests in its rightful place.
And we, as alumnus of this great institution, will spend Levellers' Day this year, remembering the part we played in the history of the College, and also rightly being thankful of the decisions we took those many years ago to become part of that history. In Solidarity. Ian
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