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 Importance of Material Practice in British Cultural Studies
The book is in two parts it's kind of there's like a series of ideas which is much more I suppose like a kind of psychoanalytic region of the underlying desires of these memoirs by Stuart Nicholson's and Scrusion. The second one is about looking at how those ideas are channeled in material practice or you can be you can locate them in material practices so the chats from the bookshop is it's a it's quite simple ethnography.
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