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Bringing Art to 'the Man in the Back Street': Regional and Historical Perspectives of Labour and the Evolution of Cultural Policy in Europe 1945–1975

“…In 1949 their dramatic productions in Consett, the working-class steel town, were poorly attended, but 200 people had been present and enthusiastic for the production of Bernard Shaw's The Man of Destiny at Monkseaton Grammar School in the largely middle-class community on the outskirts of Whitley Bay. 46 Mary Glasgow's fear in the 1940s that an overbearing middle-class presence in cultural policy discouraged working-class participation and undermined any didactic ambitions was shared by the next generation of regional arts officers, who remained anxious to engage with the North East's industrial associations. Throughout the 1960s and 1970s this was reflected in the debate about how best to introduce 'artistic activities' to working men's clubs.…”