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The 20th-century decline of deference

21 February 2019

Dr Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite (UCL History), author of Class, Politics and the Decline of Deference in England 1968-2000, describes how people’s willingness to defer to class hierarchies dramatically declined in the 20th century.

Listen: BBC Radio 4’s ‘Thinking Allowed’ (from 2 mins)