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Stefan Collini

Stefan Collini’s latest book is Common Reading: Critics, Historians, Publics.

From the London Review dated 20 January 2005

Our Island Story

  • The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography edited by H.C.G. Matthew and Brian Harrison

“Broadly speaking, there are seven main sociological layers of subjects. First, there’s the burial in the Abbey layer: monarchs, statesmen, prelates. Next, the land and glory crowd: owning a lot of acres and killing a lot of foreigners have ever been among the most reliable passports to distinction in British life. Then there’s the Athenaeum Club: judges, writers, civil servants, scientists, professors. Next comes the Institute of Directors: the controllers of capital and the boss class generally. After that, the Hello! gang: the celebrated, the notorious, the newly rich, the eternally shameless. Then we have the historical oddities: the very old, the very weird and the very unlikely.” [ read more . . . ]

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