Daniel R. Smith, "The Fall and Rise of the English Upper Class: Houses, Kinship and Capital Since 1945" (Manchester UP, 2023)
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The World's Green One by Boris Stewart
Boris Stewart has a fascinating life in the sense that he's if you put into like a chat GPT machine give more posh posh British person it will probably give you Boris Stewart. Roger Scrooting is a person who grew up in effectively a lower I would say maybe working class household and his dad presents him for being enamored with kind of middle class upper class life and all its institutions. The way in which you can tell your story through the history of elite institutions like foreign office eaten to colonial office on so on is a way of going, says Peter Hitchens.
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