Snobs, Swots and Hacks
Jonathan Parry, 23 January 2025
Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite
by Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman.
Harvard, 317 pp., £20, September 2024,978 0 674 25771 9 Show More
by Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman.
Harvard, 317 pp., £20, September 2024,
“... professors stopped being listed automatically about twenty years ago.In 2016, two sociologists, Aaron Reeves and Sam Friedman, began a study of the British elite founded on the 125,000 entries in the database of Who’s Who and its companion volume, Who Was Who. They supplemented this body of material with some interviews – new or archival – with ... ”
