Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite did her undergraduate degree in history at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and her MPhil and PhD at St Catharine's Collage, Cambridge, supervised by Jon Lawrence. She was subsequently a Junior Research Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge before moving to UCL where she lectures in Twentieth-Century British History. She is also an interviewer for the History of Parliament Trust's oral history project, and co-editor of Renewal: a journal of social democracy.

[T]his very interesting study attempts to answer the questions, Why Thatcher? Why Blair? That is, how and why did the traditional class and political alignments of Labour and Conservative voters fracture and realign themselves during the last third of the twentieth century? To analyze these fundamental shifts in political attitudes and class identifications, Sutcliffe-Braithwaite revisits previous sociological studies, oral histories, mass observation records, and related materials to reconstruct how popular languages of class and society changed during this period. Summing Up: Recommended.

• Introduction: Class, Politics and the Decline of Deference in England, 1968-2000 1: Tyneside Shipbuilders: Workers' Attitudes to Class, 1968-1971 2: Middle-class Voices, c. 1969-1979 3: Working-class Autobiography, c. 1970-1985 4: Attitudes to Class in the '100 Families' Study, 1985-1988 5: Mass Observers' Attitudes to Class, 1990 6: Class in the Millennium Memory Bank, 1998-2000 7: Class in Thatcherite Ideology and Rhetoric 8: New Labour, Class, and Social Change Conclusion: Class, Politics and the Decline of Deference, 1968-2017

Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite did her undergraduate degree in history at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and her MPhil and PhD at St Catharine's Collage, Cambridge, supervised by Jon Lawrence. She was subsequently a Junior Research Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge before moving to UCL where she lectures in Twentieth-Century British History. She is also an interviewer for the History of Parliament Trust's oral history project, and co-editor of Renewal: a journal of social democracy.

[T]his very interesting study attempts to answer the questions, Why Thatcher? Why Blair? That is, how and why did the traditional class and political alignments of Labour and Conservative voters fracture and realign themselves during the last third of the twentieth century? To analyze these fundamental shifts in political attitudes and class identifications, Sutcliffe-Braithwaite revisits previous sociological studies, oral histories, mass observation records, and related materials to reconstruct how popular languages of class and society changed during this period. Summing Up: Recommended.

• Introduction: Class, Politics and the Decline of Deference in England, 1968-2000 1: Tyneside Shipbuilders: Workers' Attitudes to Class, 1968-1971 2: Middle-class Voices, c. 1969-1979 3: Working-class Autobiography, c. 1970-1985 4: Attitudes to Class in the '100 Families' Study, 1985-1988 5: Mass Observers' Attitudes to Class, 1990 6: Class in the Millennium Memory Bank, 1998-2000 7: Class in Thatcherite Ideology and Rhetoric 8: New Labour, Class, and Social Change Conclusion: Class, Politics and the Decline of Deference, 1968-2017

Florence Sutcliffe-Braithwaite did her undergraduate degree in history at St Hugh's College, Oxford, and her MPhil and PhD at St Catharine's Collage, Cambridge, supervised by Jon Lawrence. She was subsequently a Junior Research Fellow at Clare College, Cambridge before moving to UCL where she lectures in Twentieth-Century British History. She is also an interviewer for the History of Parliament Trust's oral history project, and co-editor of Renewal: a journal of social democracy.

[T]his very interesting study attempts to answer the questions, Why Thatcher? Why Blair? That is, how and why did the traditional class and political alignments of Labour and Conservative voters fracture and realign themselves during the last third of the twentieth century? To analyze these fundamental shifts in political attitudes and class identifications, Sutcliffe-Braithwaite revisits previous sociological studies, oral histories, mass observation records, and related materials to reconstruct how popular languages of class and society changed during this period. Summing Up: Recommended.

• Introduction: Class, Politics and the Decline of Deference in England, 1968-2000 1: Tyneside Shipbuilders: Workers' Attitudes to Class, 1968-1971 2: Middle-class Voices, c. 1969-1979 3: Working-class Autobiography, c. 1970-1985 4: Attitudes to Class in the '100 Families' Study, 1985-1988 5: Mass Observers' Attitudes to Class, 1990 6: Class in the Millennium Memory Bank, 1998-2000 7: Class in Thatcherite Ideology and Rhetoric 8: New Labour, Class, and Social Change Conclusion: Class, Politics and the Decline of Deference, 1968-2017