The British Aristocracy

Author : Chris Bryant
Publisher : Random House
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473525511

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Entitled by Chris Bryant Pdf

"A proudly partisan history of the British aristocracy - which scores some shrewd hits against the upper class themselves, and the nostalgia of the rest of us for their less endearing eccentricities. A great antidote to Downton Abbey." (Mary Beard) Exploring the extraordinary social and political dominance enjoyed by the British aristocracy over the centuries, Entitled seeks to explain how a tiny number of noble families rose to such a position in the first place. It reveals the often nefarious means they have employed to maintain their wealth, power and prestige and examines the greed, ambition, jealousy and rivalry which drove aristocratic families to guard their interests with such determination. In telling their history, Entitled introduces a cast of extraordinary characters: fierce warriors, rakish dandies, political dilettantes, charming eccentrics, arrogant snobs and criminals who quite literally got away with murder.

Author : David Cannadine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Aristocracy (Social class)
ISBN : 0141023139

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The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by David Cannadine Pdf

At the outset of the 1870s, the British aristocracy could rightly consider themselves the most fortunate people on earth: they held the lion's share of land, wealth and power in the world's greatest empire. By the end of the 1930s they had lost not only a generation of sons in the First World War, but also much of their prosperity, prestige and political significance.David Cannadine shows how this shift came about and how it was reinforced in the aftermath of the Second World War. Lucidly written and sparkling with wit, The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy is a landmark study that dramatically changes our understanding of British social history

Author : Ann Williams
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441121189

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The World Before Domesday by Ann Williams Pdf

Ann Williams' important new book discusses the dynamics of English aristocratic society in a way that has not been explored before. She investigates the rewards and obligations of status including birth, wealth, the importance of public and royal service and the need to participate in local affairs, especially legal and administrative business. This period saw the birth of a 'lesser aristocracy', the ancestors of the English gentry, the power-house of society and politics in the late medieval and early modern periods. Going on to examine the obligations and rewards of lordship and the relations between lords and their men, Williams illustrates how status was displayed and covers the importance of the manorial house, which was at once a home, an estate centre and a symbol of authority and the insignia of rank in weaponry, clothing and personal adornment. The growing gap between the highest rank of society and the lowest, fuelled by underlying economic developments is also covered. In conclusion she considers some of the occupations which symbolized and perpetuated lordly power. Though the upper levels of aristocratic society were swept away by the Norman settlement, the 'lesser aristocracy' had a much higher rate of survival and it was this group who began the manorialization of English society, familiar from the late medieval period.

Author : Lawrence James
Publisher : Abacus
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780748125326

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Aristocrats by Lawrence James Pdf

For nine hundred years the British aristocracy has considered itself ideally qualified to rule others, make laws and guide the fortunes of the nation. Tracing the history of this remarkable supremacy, ARISTOCRATS is a story of wars, intrigue, chicanery and extremes of both selflessness and greed. James also illuminates how the aristocracy's infatuation with classical art has forged our heritage, how its love of sport has shaped our pastimes and values - and how its scandals have entertained the public. Impeccably researched, balanced and brilliantly entertaining, ARISTOCRATS is an enthralling history of power, influence and an extraordinary knack for survival.

Author : Mark Bence-Jones,Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015029504951

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The British Aristocracy by Mark Bence-Jones,Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd Pdf

Author : David Cannadine
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999-09-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0375703683

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The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy by David Cannadine Pdf

"A brilliant, multifaceted chronicle of economic and social change." --The New York Times At the outset of the 1870s, the British aristocracy could rightly consider themselves the most fortunate people on earth: they held the lion's share of land, wealth, and power in the world's greatest empire. By the end of the 1930s they had lost not only a generation of sons in the First World War, but also much of their prosperity, prestige, and political significance. Deftly orchestrating an enormous array of documents and letters, facts, and statistics, David Cannadine shows how this shift came about--and how it was reinforced in the aftermath of the Second World War. Astonishingly learned, lucidly written, and sparkling with wit, The Decline and Fall of the British Aristocracy is a landmark study that dramatically changes our understanding of British social history.

Author : David Cannadine,Professor of History and Director of the Institute of Historical Research David Cannadine
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300059817

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Aspects of Aristocracy by David Cannadine,Professor of History and Director of the Institute of Historical Research David Cannadine Pdf

He reconstructs the extraordinary financial history of the dukes of Devonshire, narrates the story of the Cozens-Hardys, a Norfolk family who played a remarkably varied part in the life of their county, and offers a controversial reappraisal of the forebears, lives, work, and personalities of Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West - a portrait, notes Cannadine, of more than a marriage.

Author : K. Schutte
Publisher : Springer
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137327802

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Women, Rank, and Marriage in the British Aristocracy, 1485-2000 by K. Schutte Pdf

Through an analysis of the marriage patterns of thousands of aristocratic women as well as an examination of diaries, letters, and memoirs, this book demonstrates that the sense of rank identity as manifested in these women's marriages remained remarkably stable for centuries, until it was finally shattered by the First World War.

Author : John E. Davies
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 1783274344

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The Changing Fortunes of a British Aristocratic Family, 1689-1976 by John E. Davies Pdf

Traces the development of a typical British aristocratic family, its estates and its activities over the period when the landed aristocracy was at its height and over the period when the aristocracy had to cope with increasing democratisation. For over two hundred years, the Campbells of Cawdor were major landowners, industrialists and politicians. Originating in Nairnshire, Scotland, they moved in the late seventeenth century to south Wales, where they became the second largest landowner in Wales and owners of significant coal and lead mines. They participated politically in the British state as MPs, peers, lords of the admiralty including one first lord, treasury lords, admirals and army officers. They supported local good causes, were involved in London 'society' and were major art collectors. As such their story is fairly typical of many other aristocratic families in the period. This book traces the development of the family, its estates and activities from the late seventeenth to the late twentieth century. It shows how they established their wealth and power during the eighteenth century, the period when the landed aristocracy was at its height, how they responded in the nineteenth century to the moves towards more democratic forms of local and national government and how, despite the difficulties aristocratic families and estates faced in the twentieth century, they survived, selling off their Welsh lands and returning to their Scottish base, which remains a flourishing agricultural estate and tourist destination. JOHN E. DAVIES was the County Archivist for Carmarthenshire andis now an independent historical researcher. He completed his doctorate at Swansea University.

Author : Andrew Adonis
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015028877648

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Making Aristocracy Work by Andrew Adonis Pdf

A study of the political role and activities of the peerage both inside and outside Parliament, the late 19th and early 20th century. Andrew Adonis reassesses the strengths and weaknesses of the House of Lords, and shows how its members were able to justify themselves by their work.

Author : Leslie Gilbert Pine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Nobility
ISBN : WISC:89008828352

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Tales of the British Aristocracy by Leslie Gilbert Pine Pdf

Author : F. M. L. Thompson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2006-10-18
Category : England
ISBN : 0415412854

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English Landed Society in the Nineteenth Century by F. M. L. Thompson Pdf

First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : John Cannon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : History
ISBN : 0521335663

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Aristocratic Century by John Cannon Pdf

Since the work of Butterfield and Namier in the 1930s, it has commonly been said that eighteenth-century England appears atomised, left with no overall interpretation. Subsequent work on religious differences and on party strife served to reinforce the image of a divided society, and in the last ten years historians of the poor and unprivileged have suggested that beneath the surface lurked substantial popular discontent. Professor Cannon uses his 1982 Wiles Lecture to offer a different interpretation - that the widespread acceptance of aristocratic values and aristocratic leadership gave a remarkable intellectual, political and social coherence to the century. He traces the recovery made by the aristocracy from its decade in 1649 when the House of Lords was abolished as useless and dangerous. After the Glorious Revolution of 1688, the peerage re-established its hold on government and society. Professor Cannon is forced to challenge some of the most cherished beliefs of English historiography - that Hanoverian society, at its top level, was an open elite, continually replenished by vigorous recruits from other groups and classes. He suggests that, on the contrary, in some respects the English peerage was more exclusive than many of its continental counterparts and that the openness was a myth which itself served a potent political purpose. Of the prospering burgeoisie, he argues that the remarkable thing was not their assertiveness but their long acquiescence in patrician rule, and he poses the paradox of a country increasingly dominated by a landed aristocracy giving birth to the first industrial revolution. His final chapter discusses the ideological under-pinning which made aristocratic supremacy acceptable for so long, and the emergence of those forces and ideals which were ultimately to replace it.

Author : Ann Williams
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 0851157084

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The English and the Norman Conquest by Ann Williams Pdf

A study of the experiences of the lesser English lords and landowners at the time of the Norman conquest and the aftermath

Author : David Crouch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2005-11-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134977949

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The Image of Aristocracy by David Crouch Pdf

David Crouch provides a broad definition of aristorcracy by examining the ways aristocrats behaved and lived between 1000 and 1300. He analyses life-style, class and luxurious living in those years. A distinctive feature of the book is that it takes a British, rather than Anglocentric, view - looking at the penetration of Welsh and Scottish society by Anglo-French ideas of aristocracy.