What actually defines the Middle Class? The signals are not the thing itself What if the middle class was never really about money, occupation or education? This article explores a different possibility: that its defining characteristic was adaptability — a response to relentless economic and social change, from industrialisation to today’s uncertainties. Read more on The […]
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Why Did Britain Learn to Look Down on Industry? While researching Murder at the Docks, I kept stumbling across one particular thread that there simply wasn’t room to follow properly, although I did allude to it in the post war chapters. It concerned Britain’s curious relationship with industry itself and whether that relationship might have played
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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
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