Is the concept and understanding of “Middle Class” still relevant to Britain today?
What was the British middle class?
It’s a phrase we still use almost every day. Politicians appeal to it, newspapers write about it, and many of us instinctively think we know what it means.
Yet historians have spent decades trying to define it—and never really agreed.
Was it wealth? Occupation? Education? Accent? Respectability? Or have we been looking for the answer in entirely the wrong place?
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