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Acknowledgements page ix
Introduction: Aspects of Aristocracy 1
PART ONE: PROCESSES AND PROBLEMS 7
The Making of the British Upper Classes 9
Aristocratic Indebtedness in the Nineteenth Century 37
Mobility and Mobility in Modern Britain 55
PART TWO: INDIVIDUALS IN CONTEXT 75
Lord Curzon as Ceremonial Impressario 77
Lord Strickland: Imperial Aristocrat and Aristocratic Imperialist 109
Winston Churchill as an Aristocratic Adventurer 130
PART THREE: THE DYNASTIC PERSPECTIVE 163
The Landowner as Millionaire: The Finances of the Dukes of Devonshire 165
Landowners, Lawyers and Litterateurs: The Cozens-Hardys of Letheringsett 184
Portrait of More Than a Marriage: Harold Nicolson and Vita Sackville-West Revisited 210
Conclusion: Beyond the Country House 242
Appendixes:
A Aristocratic Indebtedness in the Nineteenth Century 249
B The Churchills 252
C The Devonshires 255
D The Cozens-Hardys 267
E The Nicolsons and the Sackville-Wests 271
A Note on Sources 274
Notes 275
Index 310
Photographic Acknowledgements 321

List of Abbreviations ix
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1. London in 1900 3
PART II IMPERIAL LONDON
CHAPTER 2. The Face of Imperial London 17
CHAPTER 3. The Nexus of Empire 37
CHAPTER 4. The City 64
CHAPTER 5. Popular Culture in the Imperial Metropolis 93
PART II. ALTERNATIVE IMPERIAL LONDONS
CHAPTER 6. Limning Female Gender Boundaries 119
CHAPTER 7. London's Radical and Celtic Fringe 162
CHAPTER 8. Dadabhai Naoroji and the Search for Respect 184
CHAPTER 9. Roots of the Pan-African Conference 203
CONCLUSION
CHAPTER 10. The Khaki Election of 1900 229
Notes 265
Bibliography 307
Acknowledgments 323
Index 325

Illustration Acknowledgements Vlll
Foreword IX
ONE Hierarchy and Rank: the Social Structure 1
TWO Arriving and Settling in 16
THREE Eating: Undergraduates in Hail and Out 26
FOUR Eating: the Dons on the Dais 39
FIVE The Society of the Senior Common Room 49
Six Drinking and Riot 61
SEVEN Women and Love 75
EIGHT Walking and Sauntering 91
NINE Sports and Pastimes 107
TEN The Theatre and Music 130
ELEVEN The Theatre of the Streets 144
Envoy 158
Notes 160
Bibliography 173
Index 178

Preface . . IX

1 Introduction: The Rise and Fall of Class? . . 1
2 The Eighteenth Century: Class Without Class Struggle . . 24
3 The Nineteenth Century: A Viable Hierarchical Society . . 57
4 The Twentieth Century: Social Identities and Political Identities . . 106
5 Conclusion: Towards a 'Classless Society'? . . 163

Notes . . 190
Index . . 235

Preface ix
PART ONE: Royals in Toils
1 Family Monarchy 3
2 Midas Monarchy II
3 Constitutional Monarchy 19
4 Welfare Monarchy 25
5 Mrs Jordan 33
6 Queen Victoria 39
7 King Edward VIII 48
8 King George VI 59
9 The Prince of Wales 68
10 Diana, Princess of Wales 76
PART Two: Hindsight's Insights
11 Patriotism 89
12 Privacy 96
13 Divorce 109
14 Suicide 119
15 Victorians 129
16 Empire 143
17 Britons 155
18 Intellectuals 165
19 Class 174
20 Morals 188
PART THREE: Persons and Personalities
21 Florence Nightingale 199
22 Cecil Rhodes 208
23 Winston Churchill 216
24 John Buchan 233
25 Lord Beaverbrook 243
26 Harold Macmillan 250
27 Sir Oswald Mosley 259
28 Robert Boothby 269
29 A.J.P. Taylor 279
30 Margaret Thatcher 288
Acknowledgements 298
Index 300

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments Xlll
1 Introduction 1
HISTORIES
2. The Classical Inheritance 13
3. Prometheus's Vulture: The Renaissance Fashioning of Gout 22
4. Science and Sydenham 36
5. The Eighteenth-Century Medical Debates 48
CULTURES
6. Gout and the Georgian Gentleman 71
7. Smollett, Cadogan and Controversy 93
8. Change and Continuity, 1790-1850 125
9 Indian Summer: Romantic and Victorian Gout 143
10. Gout and Glory: Garrod and After 173
GOUTOMETRIES
11. Podagra Ludens: Disease and Discourse 211
I. Podagra ludens: Ludic representations 211
II. The Ludanic and Menippean heritage 2I3
III. The rhetoric of swelling 2l6
IV. Homo ludens and the neo-Ludanic heritage 2I9
V. The metaphoric heritage 229
12. Gout: The Visual Heritage 248
Epilogue 284
Notes 286
Bibliography 327
Index 380

Prefaces . . VII
List of Contributors . . X
List of Lenders . . XI
Editor's Note . . XII

Karl Friedrich Schinkel: A Universal Man . . 1
Schinkel the Artist . . 9
Schinkel's Buildings and Plans for Berlin . . 16
Schinkel and Durand: the Case of the Altes Museum . . 27
Royal Residences on the Havel . . 36
Schinkel's Architectural Theory . . 47
Art And Industry 57

Schinkel's Buildings in Photographs 1890-1940 . . 64
A Universal Man Cat. 1-4 . . 88
Architectural Education Cat. 5-12 . . 91
The Romantic Impulse Cat. 13-26 . . 97
The Theatre Cat. 27-32 . . 107
Early Interiors Cat. 33-9 . . 113
Classical Berlin Cat. 40-56 . . 117
Royal Residences Cat. 57-100 . . 133
Church Architecture Cat. 101-8 . . 166
The British Journey and the Constructional Style Cat. 109-27 . . 172
Art and Industry Cat. 128-53 . . 185
Utopian Visions Cat. 154-60 . . 201

Acknowledgements . . vi
List of Figures . . vii
Introduction . . 1

Part One Fables, Fictions and Facts
CHAPTER ONE The Rollright Stones, Oxfordshire . . 9
CHAPTER TWO Long Meg and Her Daughters, Cumbria . . 33
CHAPTER THREE Stanton Drew, Somerset . . 47
CHAPTER FOUR A Cornish Quartet . . 65
CHAPTER FIVE Woodhenge, Wiltshire . . 85

Part Two Stonehenge
CHAPTER SIX Stonehenge, Wiltshire . . 101
CHAPTER SEVEN Transportation or Glaciation? . . 107
CHAPTER EIGHT The Heel Stone . . 125
CHAPTER NINE The Slaughter Stone . . 139
CHAPTER TEN The Sarsen Horseshoe . . 151

Part Three The Making of a Stone Circle
CHAPTER ELEVEN Swinside, Cumbria . . 173

Abbreviations . . 186
Notes . . 187
Bibliography . . 194
Index . . 197
Photographic Acknowledgements . . 200

PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS VI
PROLOGUE I
INTRODUCTION 9
1 DEATH OF THE OLD ORDER? 27
2 THE 'MARCH OF INTELLECT' 57
3 CAPITAL 91
4 URBANIZATION 121
5 TERRITORY 149
6 LABOUR 173
7 EDUCATION AND SOCIAL REPRODUCTION 195
8 REPRESENTATIONS IN ART. 215
EPILOGUE 241
NOTES 246
PICTURE CREDITS 259
INDEX 260

Acknowledgements vi
Introduction vii
1 Houses Fit for Gentlemen 1
2 The Country House Anatomised 24
3 Parks and Gardens 48
4 The Squire's Wife 65
5 The Wider Family 82
6 Servants and Masters 96
7 Estate Stewards 108
8 Coaches and Coachmen 122
9 Chaplains and Tutors 132
10 Domestic Activities 146
11 Intellectual Pursuits 163
12 Scandal 177
Epilogue 191
Appendix A Households and Servants: A Numerical Assessment 198
Appendix B Estate Stewards 203
Notes 207
Index 224
Photographic Acknowledgements 232