Lords of Misrule: Hostility to Aristocracy in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain.(Book review)

Journal of Social History | September 22, 2006| | Copyright

Lords of Misrule: Hostility to Aristocracy in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain. By Antony Taylor (New York and Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. xii plus 233 pp.).

As the British government dismantles the historic House of Lords, and traditional pursuits associated with the landed classes such as hunting are abolished or under attack, an examination of the historical background to these events is to be welcomed. Dr Taylor's aim is not so much to write a book about the decline of the British aristocracy as to search out the roots of opposition ...

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