This book provides the first rounded account of the new and highly influential ruling elite of England in the century after the Norman conquest of 1066, in which the old English aristocracy was swept ...

Aristocracy of England -- gentlemen of the South.It is hard to write the two on the same ???ac. Mr.Bright or Mr. Ernest Jones might be indignant, if accusedof saving anything so monstrous ...

AN astonishing “new aristocracy” of couples, relatives and nepo-babies runs the Government. More than two dozen ministers ...

Dr DAVID SIMPKIN is Research Associate at the University of Reading. This solid and impressive prosopographical study makes a major contribution to our understanding of the history of the English ...

Rather, they were the closest thing the United States has ever had to a true aristocracy. Several factors, besides wealth, made Boston's Brahmins stand out as an aristocracy even from the wealthy ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is a historian and public speaker Thirty years ago, the US network NBC asked me to create a TV ...

After a senior shadow cabinet minister lashed out at members of the government who have links to other senior figures - the ...

This idea that the best of us have the ability to rise to the top undergirds the narrative of America's origin story of escape from the ossified clutches of British aristocracy. It's also become a ...

Benedict Cumberbatch, Rosamund Pike & Anthony Hopkins To Star In Guy Ritchie & Black Bear's ‘Wife & Dog' About The "Back-Stabbing World Of The British Aristocracy" Story by Andreas Wiseman • 1w ...