Speak for England: an oral history of England from 1900-1975, based on interviews with inhabitants of Wigton, Cumberland

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A memoir and a portrait of Wigton, Cumberland, England --- a hamlet before the Norman Conquest, receiving its first market charter in 1262. A native son of Wigton, Melvin Bragg (1939 -), of BBC fame, based 8 of his novels in his home town. For this biography of a town, Bragg interviewed some 60 community members whose experiences spanned the past seventy-five years of village life.

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