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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

This solid and impressive prosopographical study makes a major contribution to our understanding of the history of the English aristocracy.' Source: English Historical Review In addition to its ...