New Keywords: A Revised Vocabulary of Culture and Society

It is now some thirty years since Raymond Williams published the first edition of his enormously influential Keywords. For a book designed to capture a fleeting moment in the evolution of the vocabulary of social and cultural studies, this has worn amazingly well. To check up on this I toddled across to look at the issue records of the humanities library at Kings College London, and noted that their copies (including the tied short‐loan copy for undergraduate set text reading) are still bobbing in and out like yo‐yos. There cannot be many sociology texts that still develop library reservation...