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Social class in the United Kingdom

Index Social class in the United Kingdom

The social structure of the United Kingdom has historically been highly influenced by the concept of social class, with the concept still affecting British society today. [1]

81 relations: A Well Respected Man, All In The Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry, Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis, Are You Being Served?, Association of British Secretaries in America, Bordeaux wine, Bourgeoisie, British humour, British Ladies' Football Club, British people, Broken Britain, Bruce Chatwin, Caste system in India, Celestina (novel), Chav, Chiantishire, Class sketch, Cohabitation in the United Kingdom, College of Arms, Culture of New Zealand, Downton Abbey, English art, Ernest Sackville Turner, General Practice Extraction Service, Gentlemen v Players, Grayson Perry, Great British Class Survey, Havergal Brian, Horatio Gates, Karma (short story), Kim Philby, Lady Chatterley's Lover, Layer Cake (film), Little Dorrit, Look Back in Anger, Malt, Margaret Clap, Martin Parr, Methodism, Methodist Church of Great Britain, Michael Apted, Mick Jagger, Middle class, Middle England, Milicent Bagot, Museums Act 1845, Nancy Cunard, Nick Clegg, Pat Barker, Pākehā settlers, ..., Peter Serafinowicz, Public school (United Kingdom), Ray Davies, Ronnie Barker, Royton, Satan's Harvest Home, Scar (The Lion King), Shakespeare authorship question, Skins (UK TV series), Social documentary photography, Socialite, Socioeconomic mobility in the United Kingdom, St Mungo's Academy, Stanmore branch line, Status–income disequilibrium, Stephen Gill (political scientist), The Costume of Yorkshire, The Football Factory (novel), The Frost Report, The Hole in the Ground, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (film), The Riff Raff Element, The Wheels of Chance, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Toffs and Toughs, Tracey Takes On..., Tracey Ullman, Tracey Ullman's Show, U and non-U English, W. Eugene Smith, William Blackstone. Expand index (31 more) »

A Well Respected Man

"A Well Respected Man" is a song by the British band The Kinks, written by the group's lead singer and rhythm guitarist Ray Davies, and originally released in the United Kingdom on the EP Kwyet Kinks in September 1965 (see 1965 in music), but the song was released on the album Kinkdom in the United States.

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All In The Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry

All In The Best Possible Taste with Grayson Perry is a 2012 documentary television series on United Kingdom station Channel 4, starring artist Grayson Perry.

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Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis (born Andreas Adonis, 22 February 1963) is a British Labour Party politician, academic and journalist who served in the Labour Government for five years.

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Are You Being Served?

Are You Being Served? is a British sitcom created and written by executive producer David Croft (Croft also directed some episodes), and Jeremy Lloyd with contributions from Michael Knowles and John Chapman, for the BBC.

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Association of British Secretaries in America

The Association of British Secretaries in America (ABSA) was a New York-based organization of the 1960s and 1970s consisting of secretaries from the United Kingdom who had come to the United States to work and live.

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Bordeaux wine

A Bordeaux wine is any wine produced in the Bordeaux region of southwest France, centred on the city of Bordeaux on the Garonne River, to the north of the city the Dordogne River joins the Garonne forming the broad estuary called the Gironde and covering the whole area of the Gironde department,with a total vineyard area of over 120,000 hectares, making it the largest wine growing area in France.

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Bourgeoisie

The bourgeoisie is a polysemous French term that can mean.

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British humour

British humour is shaped by the relative stability of British society and carries a strong element of satire aimed at "the absurdity of everyday life".

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British Ladies' Football Club

The British Ladies' Football Club was an all-woman football team formed in the United Kingdom in 1895.

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British people

The British people, or the Britons, are the citizens of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the British Overseas Territories, and the Crown dependencies.

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Broken Britain

Broken Britain is a term which has been used in The Sun newspaper and by the Conservative Party to describe a perceived widespread state of social decay in the United Kingdom.

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Bruce Chatwin

Charles Bruce Chatwin (13 May 194018 January 1989) was an English travel writer, novelist, and journalist.

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Caste system in India

The caste system in India is the paradigmatic ethnographic example of caste.

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Celestina (novel)

Celestina is an eighteenth-century English novel and poet Charlotte Turner Smith’s third novel.

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Chav

Chav (charver in parts of Northern England) is a pejorative epithet used in Britain to describe a particular stereotype of anti-social youth dressed in sportswear.

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Chiantishire

Chiantishire is an informal nickname given to an area of Tuscany, Italy, where many upper class British citizens have moved or usually spend their holidays.

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Class sketch

The Class sketch is a comedy sketch first broadcast in an episode of David Frost's satirical comedy programme The Frost Report on 7 April 1966.

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Cohabitation in the United Kingdom

Cohabitation in the United Kingdom, according to social security law would typically relate to a couple being treated as Living together as a married couple even if not married or in a Civil partnership.

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College of Arms

The College of Arms, sometimes referred to as the College of Heralds, is a royal corporation consisting of professional officers of arms, with jurisdiction over England, Wales, Northern Ireland and some Commonwealth realms.

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Culture of New Zealand

The culture of New Zealand is essentially a Western culture influenced by the unique environment and geographic isolation of the islands, and the cultural input of the indigenous Māori and the various waves of multi-ethnic migration which followed the British colonisation of New Zealand.

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Downton Abbey

Downton Abbey is a historical period drama television series set in England in the early 20th century, created by Julian Fellowes and co-produced by Carnival Films and Masterpiece.

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English art

English art is the body of visual arts made in England.

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Ernest Sackville Turner

Ernest Sackville (E. S.) Turner (17 November 1909 – 6 July 2006) was an English freelance journalist and author who published 20 books, including Boys Will Be Boys (Michael Joseph, 1948), The Phoney War on the Home Front (St. Martin's Press, 1961), and What The Butler Saw (Penguin, 1962), and contributing to the Times Literary Supplement, London Review of Books, and regularly to the English satirical weekly magazine Punch (the latter for more than 50 years).

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General Practice Extraction Service

The General Practice Extraction Service (GPES or GP Extraction Service) is a British health service outcomes research computer database that collates statistical aggregated data (demographic cohorts) from individual medical records of GPs in England, for purposes independent of an individual's immediate health, such as public health research.

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Gentlemen v Players

Gentlemen v Players was a first-class cricket match generally held in England twice or more a year for well over a century.

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Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry (born 24 March 1960) is an English contemporary artist.

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Great British Class Survey

On 2 April 2013 analysis of the results of the Great British Class Survey (GBCS; a survey of social class in the United Kingdom which researched the social structure of the United Kingdom) was published online.

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Havergal Brian

Havergal Brian (born William Brian; 29 January 187628 November 1972) was a British classical composer.

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Horatio Gates

Horatio Lloyd Gates (July 26, 1727April 10, 1806) was a retired British soldier who served as an American general during the Revolutionary War.

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Karma (short story)

"Karma" is a story written by Indian writer Khushwant Singh.

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Kim Philby

Harold Adrian Russell "Kim" Philby (1 January 1912 – 11 May 1988) was a high-ranking member of British intelligence who worked as a double agent before defecting to the Soviet Union in 1963.

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Lady Chatterley's Lover

Lady Chatterley's Lover is a novel by D. H. Lawrence, first published privately in 1928 in Italy, and in 1929 in France and Australia.

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Layer Cake (film)

Layer Cake (also occasionally stylised as L4YER CAKƐ) is a 2004 British crime thriller film directed by Matthew Vaughn, in his directorial debut.

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Little Dorrit

Little Dorrit is a novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857.

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Look Back in Anger

Look Back in Anger (1956) is a realist play written by John Osborne.

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Malt

Malt is germinated cereal grains that have been dried in a process known as "malting".

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Margaret Clap

Margaret Clap (died c. 1726), better known as Mother Clap, ran a coffee house from 1724 to 1726 in Holborn, Middlesex, a short distance from the City of London.

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Martin Parr

Martin Parr (born 23 May 1952) is a British documentary photographer, photojournalist and photobook collector.

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Methodism

Methodism or the Methodist movement is a group of historically related denominations of Protestant Christianity which derive their inspiration from the life and teachings of John Wesley, an Anglican minister in England.

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Methodist Church of Great Britain

The Methodist Church of Great Britain is the fourth-largest Christian denomination in Britain and the mother church to Methodists worldwide.

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Michael Apted

Michael David Apted, (born 10 February 1941) is an English director, producer, writer and actor.

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Mick Jagger

Sir Michael Philip Jagger (born 26 July 1943), known professionally as Mick Jagger, is an English singer-songwriter, musician, composer and actor who gained fame as the lead singer and one of the founder members of the Rolling Stones.

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Middle class

The middle class is a class of people in the middle of a social hierarchy.

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Middle England

The phrase "Middle England" is a socio-political term which generally refers to middle class or lower-middle class people in England who hold traditional conservative or right-wing views.

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Milicent Bagot

Milicent Jessie Eleanor Bagot, CBE (28 March 1907 – 26 May 2006) was a British intelligence officer.

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Museums Act 1845

The Museums Act 1845 (8 & 9 Vict c. 43) was an act of the United Kingdom Parliament which gave the town councils of larger municipal boroughs the power to establish museums.

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Nancy Cunard

Nancy Clara Cunard (10 March 1896 – 17 March 1965) was a writer, heiress and political activist.

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Nick Clegg

Sir Nicholas William Peter Clegg (born 7 January 1967) is a British politician who served as Deputy Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2010 to 2015 and as Leader of the Liberal Democrats from 2007 to 2015.

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Pat Barker

Patricia Mary W. Barker, CBE, FRSL (née Drake; born 8 May 1943) is an English writer and novelist.

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Pākehā settlers

Pākehā settlers were European emigrants who journeyed to New Zealand, and more specifically to Auckland, the Wellington/Hawkes Bay region, Canterbury and Otago during the 19th century.

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Peter Serafinowicz

Peter Szymon Serafinowicz (born 10 July 1972) is an English actor, voice actor, comedian, and writer.

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Public school (United Kingdom)

A public school in England and Wales is a long-established, student-selective, fee-charging independent secondary school that caters primarily for children aged between 11 or 13 and 18, and whose head teacher is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC).

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Ray Davies

Sir Raymond Douglas Davies, (born 21 June 1944) is an English singer, songwriter and musician.

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Ronnie Barker

Ronald William George Barker, (25 September 1929 – 3 October 2005) was an English actor, comedian and writer.

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Royton

Royton is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 21,284 in 2011.

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Satan's Harvest Home

Satan's Harvest Home is a pamphlet published anonymously in 1749 in London, Great Britain.

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Scar (The Lion King)

Scar is a fictional character who appears in Walt Disney Pictures' animated feature film The Lion King (1994).

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Shakespeare authorship question

The Shakespeare authorship question is the argument that someone other than William Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon wrote the works attributed to him.

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Skins (UK TV series)

Skins is a British teen drama television series that follows the lives of a group of teenagers in Bristol, South West England, through the two years of sixth form.

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Social documentary photography

Social documentary photography or concerned photography is the recording of how the world looks like, with a social and/or environmental focus.

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Socialite

A socialite is a person (usually from a privileged, wealthy, or aristocratic background) who has a wide reputation and a high position in society.

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Socioeconomic mobility in the United Kingdom

Socioeconomic mobility in the United Kingdom refers to the ability, or the lack of, of citizens of the UK to move from one economic class to another.

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St Mungo's Academy

St Mungo's Academy is a Roman Catholic, co-educational, comprehensive, secondary school located in Bridgeton, Glasgow.

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Stanmore branch line

The Stanmore branch line was a railway line in Harrow, Middlesex (now Greater London), in the United Kingdom.

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Status–income disequilibrium

Status–income disequilibrium (sometimes abbreviated SID) is a political term frequently used to describe a desirable high status job with relatively low income.

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Stephen Gill (political scientist)

Stephen Gill, FRSC (born 1950) is Distinguished Research Professor of Political Science at York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

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The Costume of Yorkshire

The Costume of Yorkshire is an 1814 book by George Walker illustrating the various styles of dress worn by people of differing traditional professions in the county of Yorkshire in the 19th century.

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The Football Factory (novel)

The Football Factory is the controversial debut novel of author John King, and is based around the adventures of a group of working-class Londoners who follow Chelsea home and away, fighting their rivals on the streets of England’s cities.

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The Frost Report

The Frost Report was a satirical television show hosted by David Frost.

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The Hole in the Ground

"The Hole in the Ground" was a comic song which was written by Myles Rudge and composed by Ted Dicks.

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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (film)

The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is a 1962 film based on the short story of the same name.

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The Riff Raff Element

The Riff Raff Element was a 1990s British television series written by Debbie Horsfield and directed by Jeremy Ancock for BBC1.

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The Wheels of Chance

The Wheels of Chance is an early comic novel by H. G. Wells about an August 1895 cycling holiday, somewhat in the style of Three Men in a Boat.

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Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, commonly known as Drury Lane, is a West End theatre and Grade I listed building in Covent Garden, London, England.

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Toffs and Toughs

Toffs and Toughs is a 1937 photograph of five English boys: two dressed in the Harrow School uniform including waistcoat, top hat, boutonnière, and cane; and three nearby wearing the plain clothes of pre-war working class youths.

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Tracey Takes On...

Tracey Takes On... is an American sketch comedy series starring Tracey Ullman.

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Tracey Ullman

Tracey Ullman (born 30 December 1959) is an English actress, comedian, singer, dancer, screenwriter, producer, director, author, and businesswoman.

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Tracey Ullman's Show

Tracey Ullman's Show is a British sketch comedy television show starring Tracey Ullman.

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U and non-U English

U and non-U English usage, with "U" standing for "upper class", and "non-U" representing the aspiring middle classes, was part of the terminology of popular discourse of social dialects (sociolects) in Britain in the 1950s.

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W. Eugene Smith

William Eugene Smith (December 30, 1918 – October 15, 1978) was an American photojournalist, who has been described as "perhaps the single most important American photographer in the development of the editorial photo essay." His major photo essays include World War II photographs, the dedication of an American country doctor and a nurse midwife, the clinic of Dr Schweitzer in French Equatorial Africa, the city of Pittsburgh, and the pollution which damaged the health of the residents of Minamata in Japan.

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William Blackstone

Sir William Blackstone (10 July 1723 – 14 February 1780) was an English jurist, judge and Tory politician of the eighteenth century.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_class_in_the_United_Kingdom

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