With an ancestry that can be traced back to Castle Howard and includes, among its academics, historians and writers, figures such as Jessica Mitford and Bertrand Russell, journalist Polly Toynbee is far from working class. Her family does, however, represent an important strand of radical history, the Fabian-Society-style social democracy which, in alliance with the unions, formed the Labour party. Here, Toynbee confronts that dichotomy and argues for an honest reappraisal of class in Britain.
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'Compelling and moving' Observer
'Replete with vivid - often hilarious, often shocking - anecdotes' Financial Times
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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