Speak for England An Essay on England 1900-1975 Based on Interviews with Inhabitants of Wigton, Cumberland
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.