An uneasy inheritance : my family and other radicals /
by Toynbee, Polly.
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BookPublisher: London : Atlantic Books, 2024Description: 436 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781838958374 (pbk.) :; 1838958371 (pbk.) :.Classification number: 305.5094 TOYSubject(s): Toynbee, Polly, 1946- -- Family | Social classes -- Great Britain -- History | Equality -- Great Britain | Society | Society | United Kingdom, Great Britain | Memoirs | Society & culture: general | Social classes | Politics & governmentSummary: While for generations Polly Toynbee's ancestors have been committed left-wing rabble-rousers railing against injustice, they could never claim to be working class, settling instead for the prosperous life of academia or journalism enjoyed by their own forebears. So where does that leave their ideals of class equality? Through a colourful, entertaining examination of her own family - which in addition to her writer father Philip and her historian grandfather Arnold contains everyone from the Glenconners to Jessica Mitford to Bertrand Russell, and features ancestral home Castle Howard as a backdrop - Toynbee explores the myth of mobility, the guilt of privilege, and asks for a truly honest conversation about class in Britain.
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| 305.42 ROS A history of women's lives in Liverpool / | 305.42 SCH Feminism: a beginner's guide | 305.4209 LLO The war on women and the brave ones who fight back / | 305.5094 TOY An uneasy inheritance : my family and other radicals / | 305.513 TOD Snakes and ladders : the great British social mobility myth / | 305.52 SCO Comrade Baron : | 305.5209 JON The Establishment and how they get away with it |
Originally published: 2023.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
While for generations Polly Toynbee's ancestors have been committed left-wing rabble-rousers railing against injustice, they could never claim to be working class, settling instead for the prosperous life of academia or journalism enjoyed by their own forebears. So where does that leave their ideals of class equality? Through a colourful, entertaining examination of her own family - which in addition to her writer father Philip and her historian grandfather Arnold contains everyone from the Glenconners to Jessica Mitford to Bertrand Russell, and features ancestral home Castle Howard as a backdrop - Toynbee explores the myth of mobility, the guilt of privilege, and asks for a truly honest conversation about class in Britain.
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