title: Images of England through Popular Music: Class, Youth and Rock ’n’ Roll, 1955‐1976. <b>By</b>KeithGildart. Palgrave Macmillan. 2013. x + 290pp. £58.00.
abstract: Why is early medieval history, or indeed any pre-modern history, important?', asks Ian Wood in the preface of this fascinating book.The problem was raised for him in 2003 when the then education secretary Charles Clarke appeared to dismiss the value of 'medievalists'.Clarke claimed later that he was actually referring to antiquated models of education; nevertheless, the systematic defunding of the Humanities by governments in the UK and elsewhere has left history professors and others very much 
journal: History