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Frommer's England 2011: With Wales by Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince

airport security, Ascot racecourse, British Empire, carbon footprint, centre right, Charles Babbage, Columbine, congestion charging, country house hotel, double helix, Edmond Halley, gentrification, George Santayana, haute couture, high-speed rail, Isaac Newton, James Watt: steam engine, Murano, Venice glass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald Reagan, Skype, Sloane Ranger, spinning jenny, Stephen Hawking, sustainable-tourism, the market place, tontine, University of East Anglia, urban planning, urban renewal, urban sprawl, young professional

For more details, call & 0844/579-3004 or check out www. epsomderby.co.uk. First week of June. Royal Ascot Week, Berkshire. Though Ascot Racecourse is open year-round for guided tours, events, exhibitions, and conferences, there are 25 race days throughout the year, with the feature races being the Royal Meeting, held over several days in June. Besides the Royal Meeting in June, key race days include King George Day (formerly known as Diamond Day) in late July and the Ascot Festival in late September. For information, contact Ascot Racecourse, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7JX (& 0870/727-1234; www.ascot. co.uk). Shakespeare under the Stars, London.

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The first race meeting at Ascot, which is directly south of Windsor at the southern end of Windsor Great Park, was held in 1711. Since then, the Ascot Racecourse has been a symbol of high society, as pictures of the royal family enjoying the races there, including the queen and Prince Philip, have been flashed around the world. Women should be sure to wear a hat. Getting There Trains travel between London’s Waterloo and Ascot Station, about a 1-hour trip, roughly every 30 minutes during the day. For rail information, call & 0845/7484950 or visit www.nationalrail.co.uk. Ascot Station is about 10 minutes from the racecourse. Buses depart frequently from London’s Victoria Coach Station.

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Fax 01344/627100. www.ramada jarvis.co.uk. 63 units. £99–£129 double; £159–£220 suite. AE, DC, MC, V. Free parking. Take A322 3km (2 miles) northeast of Ascot. Amenities: Restaurant; bar; babysitting; exercise room; indoor heated pool; room service; sauna; 2 outdoor tennis courts. In room: TV, fridge, hair dryer. Ascot Racecourse Ascot Ascot Racecourse, High Street (& 0870/722-7227; www.ascot.co.uk), England’s largest and most prestigious course, is open throughout the year. The facility hosts 27 days of racing yearly. The highlight of the Ascot social season is the Royal Meeting (or Royal Week), when many women wear fancy hats and white gloves.

The Psychopath Test: A Journey Through the Madness Industry by Jon Ronson

Abraham Maslow, Adam Curtis, Albert Einstein, Ascot racecourse, Carl Icahn, corporate raider, cuban missile crisis, disinformation, Donald Trump, Douglas Hofstadter, false flag, Gödel, Escher, Bach, impulse control, Jon Ronson, Norman Mailer, Ronald Reagan, Skype

There was a kind of observation room. Beyond it, behind thick, clear glass, lay two large, clean, featureless open-plan wards. A few men shuffled around inside them, the psychopaths, eating chocolates, looking out the windows at the rolling hills beyond. Somewhere in the near distance, through the snow, lay Windsor Castle, Ascot Racecourse, Legoland. An hour passed slowly. Nurses and security guards came over to say hello and ask me who I was. I said I was a friend of Tony’s. “Oh, Tony,” said one nurse. “I know Tony.” “What do you think of Tony?” I asked him. “I do have strong thoughts about Tony,” he said. “But it would not be appropriate for me to tell you what they are.”

Cathedrals of Steam: How London’s Great Stations Were Built – and How They Transformed the City by Christian Wolmar

Ascot racecourse, British Empire, centre right, coronavirus, COVID-19, creative destruction, Crossrail, driverless car, high-speed rail, James Watt: steam engine, lockdown, mass immigration, megacity, megaproject, pneumatic tube, railway mania

Nevertheless, the London & Southampton had learnt that there was a good market to cater for race meetings and a few weeks later advertised services to Ascot via Woking station. It was a tradition that outlived the various vicissitudes in the history of the railway – and even today lots of smartly dressed race-goers travel by train bound for Ascot to avoid the terrible traffic jams leading to the racecourse. That incident, which attracted considerable publicity, certainly put the new railway on the map and patronage was strong right from the start. Passenger numbers built up to 1,000 a day within the first six months of operation, more than three times the original estimate in the company’s prospectus.

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., 199 Advantages of Railways with Locomotive Engines, Especially the London & Greenwich Railway, The, 24 Albert, Prince Consort, 67, 79 All Saints Church, Lambeth, 260 Allport, James, 111, 113, 116, 119 Amba Hotel Charing Cross, 254 Andaz London Liverpool Street, 254 Argent LLP (property developer), 301 Arup, Ove, 299 Ascot Racecourse, 252 Ashbee, W.N., 208 Asher, Wayne, 102–3 ‘atmospheric’ railway, 35–6 Bailey, Joseph, 188 Baker, William, 105 Balmoral Castle, Scotland, 79 Barlow, William, 109, 116–19 Barry, Charles, 181, 205 Barry, Edward, 181, 188 Basingstoke Canal, 139 Battersea, 176 Battersea railway bridge, 74, 173–4, 183, 237 Bayswater, 9, 232 Bazalgette, Joseph, 218 Beazley, Samuel, 41–2 Beeching, Richard, 103, 232, 233, 277 Belgravia, 9, 170 Bell, Ingham, 205 Belsize tunnel, 113 Belton Estate, The (Trollope), 123 Bender, Thomas, 281 Berkeley, George, 99 Berlin, Germany, 236 Bermondsey, 26–8 Bethlehem Hospital (Bedlam), 105, 201 Bethnal Green, 10, 201, 206, 268 Betjeman, John, 4, 276, 277–303 Broad Street and, 104, 106 Cannon Street and, 290–91 Charing Cross and, 285–6 Euston and, 54, 59, 61, 137, 278, 280–81 Fenchurch Street and, 99–100, 102, 291–2 King’s Cross and, 295–8 Liverpool Street and, 209, 292–5 London Bridge and, 288–90 London’s Historic Railway Stations, 277–8, 288 Marylebone and, 228–9, 281–2 Paddington and, 69, 282–3 St Pancras and, 277, 295–6, 298–301 Victoria and, 283–4 Biddle, Gordon, 50, 82, 124, 126 Billingsgate market, 58, 130, 177 Birmingham, 44–5, 55, 57 Birmingham & Derby Railway, 111 Birt, William, 207 Bishop’s Bridge station, 66–8 Bishopsgate station, 91–5, 99, 200–201, 233, 246 Blackfriars railway bridge, 74, 113, 165–6, 168, 183, 191, 237 Blackfriars station, 137, 164, 166, 191, 234, 301 Blackwall, 95–8 Blomfield, Arthur, 114 Bloomsbury, 9 boat trains, 180–81, 269–70 bookstalls, 254–6 Booth, Charles, 132 Bourne, John, 49 Bow Junction, 103, 105 Braddock, Henry, 227 Bradlaugh, Charles, 153 Bradley, Simon, 114, 117, 121, 123, 135 Bradshaw’s, 243 Braithwaite, John, 92, 94–5 Brassey, Thomas, 140, 144, 192 Bricklayers Arms station, 39–41, 42, 233, 241 Brighton Belle, 269 Bristol, 63, 66 Bristol Temple Meads station, 68 Britain’s Historic Railway Buildings (Biddle), 50 British Empire Exhibition (1924–5), 232 British Library, 133, 300 British Rail, 106, 136–7, 167, 227, 278–9, 291, 293, 295 British Railways, 136, 160, 229, 275–6, 280 British Transport Commission, 275 British Transport Hotels, 254 ‘broad gauge’, 63–4, 94–5 Broad Street station, 74, 102–7, 174, 200–201, 204, 233, 237, 241, 244, 276, 278, 293, 302 Brookwood cemetery, 150–55, 178 Broun-Ramsay, James, 1st Marquess of Dalhousie, 72 Broun, Richard, 150 Brunel, Isambard Kingdom, 36, 63–9, 174, 177–9, 282, 283 Brunswick Hotel, 97 Brunswick Wharf, 95 Brutalism, 137 Building News, 127, 253 Burton ale, 116–17 cab ranks, 257 cable system railway, 96–8 Camden Railway Heritage Trust, 50 Camden Station, 58 Camden Town, 10, 46–50, 84–7, 103 canals, 83–4 Canary Wharf, 107 Cannon Street bridge, 74, 187 Cannon Street station, 164, 168, 175, 179–80, 186–90, 235, 303 building costs, 194 hotel, 188, 253, 290 modern day, 290–91 public lavatories, 188–9, 257 refurbishment of, 273 World War II and, 274 Canterbury & Whitstable Railway, 21 Capel-Coningsby, George, 5th Earl of Essex, 45 Catch Me Who Can, 16 Cautley, Henry, 185 Central St Martins art college, 301 Channel Tunnel, 222, 284 Charing Cross, Euston & Hampstead Railway 183, 187 Charing Cross Hotel, 181–2, 188, 254, 285 Charing Cross Railway Company, 177 Charing Cross station, 4, 74, 156, 164, 168, 174–86, 190, 237, 265, 269, 302 building costs, 194 clock, 180 Eleanor cross, 182 Embankment Gardens, 285 hotel, 181–2, 254, 285 modern day, 285–6 refurbishment of, 273 roof, 179, 185–6 World War II and, 275 Charles, Prince of Wales, 279 Charlton Athletic FC, 252 Chelsea, 8, 10 Chelsea FC, 252 Church land development, 146, 194, 239, 260–61 City & South London line, 159 City of London, 11, 12, 73–4, 91, 93, 100–102, 105, 145, 237 City of London Theatre, 202 City Terminus Hotel, Cannon Street, 188, 253 City Thameslink station, 167 Clapham, 11, 145, 237 Clarendon, Earl of, see Villiers, George, 4th Earl of Clarendon Clergy Orphan Asylum, 224 Coal Drops Yard, 131 Coghlan, Francis, 55–6 Colney Hatch, 155 Continental services, 269–70, 299 Cook, Thomas, 181 Copenhagen tunnel, 77, 82 Corbett’s Lane, Bermondsey, 26, 33, 36 coronavirus, 4–5 Covent Garden, 130, 177 New Covent Garden, 148 Cranborne, Lord, see Gascoyne-Cecil, Robert, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury Crossrail, 221, 283, 302 Croydon, 14–15, 33, 35, 40 Crystal Palace, 68, 80 Cubitt, Joseph, 80 Cubitt, Lewis, 39, 40, 77, 80–81, 113, 123, 297 Cubitt, Thomas, 9 Cubitt, William, 39, 80 ‘Demolition Statements’, 193 Denbigh Hall, 55 Dent of London, clockmaker, 80 Deptford, 21–5, 27–8 Deptford station, 25, 32, 37–8 Derbyshire, Nick, 208, 293 Descriptive Map of London Poverty (Booth), 132 Dickens, Charles, 48–9 diesel engines, 128, 300 District Railway, 190, 193, 218–21, 266 Docklands, 10, 74, 84, 95–6, 107 Docklands Light Railway, 97 Dombey and Son (Dickens), 48–9 Dottin, Abel, 30, 140 Dottin Street station, 30 Dover, Kent, 19, 23, 39, 40–41, 298 Early Closing Association, 251 East and West India Docks & Birmingham Junction Railway, 103 East India Dock, 95 Eastern Counties Railway, 91–5, 98–9, 101, 199–200 Edgware, Highgate & London Railway, 251 Edis, Robert, 205, 228 Edmonton, 10, 206–7, 212 electrification, 259–60, 266–8, 271 Ellis, C.

Ma’am Darling by Craig Brown

Ascot racecourse, Bletchley Park, British Empire, Desert Island Discs, Etonian, Joan Didion, Norman Mailer, North Sea oil, sensible shoes, Timothy McVeigh

To some, including a few members of her own family, it seemed as though a price had been attached to virtually everything the Princess ever owned. There had, though, been one or two hasty last-minute withdrawals. On the first day of the sale, Christie’s announced that an ornate 1930s cast-iron railing acquired by the Princess from Ascot racecourse and transferred by her to the rose garden at Kensington Palace would be withdrawn from sale: it emerged that fixtures and fittings from any royal residence are protected by law, their removal punishable by a custodial sentence of up to seven years. ‘The client has decided to give it to the nation,’ explained a spokesman for Christie’s.

Sam Friedman and Daniel Laurison by The Class Ceiling Why it Pays to be Privileged (2019, Policy Press)

affirmative action, Ascot racecourse, Boris Johnson, Bullingdon Club, classic study, critical race theory, discrete time, Donald Trump, Downton Abbey, emotional labour, equal pay for equal work, gender pay gap, gig economy, Gini coefficient, glass ceiling, Hyperloop, if you build it, they will come, imposter syndrome, income inequality, invisible hand, Jeremy Corbyn, job satisfaction, knowledge economy, longitudinal study, Martin Parr, meritocracy, meta-analysis, microaggression, nudge theory, nudge unit, old-boy network, performance metric, psychological pricing, school choice, Skype, starchitect, The Spirit Level, the strength of weak ties, unpaid internship, upwardly mobile, W. E. B. Du Bois, work culture

Cover design by Lyn Davies Front cover image: Martin Parr, Cartier Polo. 1998. G.B England. Ascot. 1998, Magnum Photos. Printed and bound in Great Britain by TJ International, Padstow Policy Press uses environmentally responsible print partners For our daughters, Cora, Skye, Ingrid and Freja The cover photograph of this book was taken by Martin Parr at Ascot racecourse in 1998. One of Britain’s most renowned photographers, and certainly the most celebrated chronicler of the class system, Parr took this photo while working on a wider essay which gloriously visualised the symbols of class identity and class division at the turn of the 21st century. Contents List of figures and tables Acknowledgements Note on language usage vii ix xiii Introduction one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven 1 Getting in Getting on Untangling the class pay gap Inside elite firms The Bank of Mum and Dad A helping hand Fitting in View from the top Self-elimination Class ceilings: A new approach to social mobility Conclusion 29 45 57 71 87 109 123 145 171 185 209 229 Methodological appendix Notes References Index 239 285 321 359 Epilogue: 10 ways to break the class ceiling With Nik Miller, Chief Executive, The Bridge Group v List of figures and tables Figures 0.1 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Flows from origins to destinations in the UK How we measure social mobility into elite occupations The privileged dominate the UK’s elite occupations Some elite occupations are a lot more closed than others The children of doctors become doctors (a lot!)

Frommer's London 2009 by Darwin Porter, Danforth Prince

airport security, Ascot racecourse, British Empire, double helix, East Village, Easter island, Edmond Halley, gentrification, glass ceiling, haute cuisine, high-speed rail, Isaac Newton, Maui Hawaii, Murano, Venice glass, New Urbanism, place-making, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Ronald Reagan, Sloane Ranger, Stephen Hawking, sustainable-tourism, urban renewal, young professional

This is a very prestigious antiques fair featuring the world’s leading dealers and more than £400 million ($800 million) worth of fine art and antiques. Call & 020/7399-8100 or visit www. grosvenor-antiquesfair.co.uk for more information. Second week of June. Royal Ascot Week, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7JN. Ascot Racecourse is open year-round for guided tours, events, exhibitions, and conferences. There are 25 race days throughout the year, with the feature race meetings being the Royal Meeting in June, Diamond Day in late July (p. 42), and the Festival at Ascot in late September (p. 43). For Royal Ascot week, which runs from mid- to late June, everyone (including the Queen) shows up in their finery to watch 24 races over 4 days.

Dictatorland: The Men Who Stole Africa by Paul Kenyon

agricultural Revolution, anti-communist, Ascot racecourse, Boeing 747, British Empire, centre right, clean water, colonial rule, Etonian, European colonialism, falling living standards, friendly fire, Global Witness, land reform, mandatory minimum, Nelson Mandela, Norman Mailer, offshore financial centre, oil rush, oil shale / tar sands, Ronald Reagan, Rosa Parks, Scramble for Africa, transatlantic slave trade, Yom Kippur War

But the term was broad enough to condemn former ZIPRA guerrillas, peaceful ZAPU supporters and, indeed, entire Ndebele villages. Then he pulled a stunt that Nkomo should have seen coming. Set among the hardy mopane trees on flat savannah north of Bulawayo in the heart of Nedeble country, was Ascot Farm, close to the racecourse of the same name. It was a large, ranch-style building bought by ZAPU after the war with money from its guerrillas’ demobilization payments. Ascot was a resettlement home, a place for veterans to live quietly while they tried to rebuild their lives. But ZAPU needed storage for military hardware.

The City on the Thames by Simon Jenkins

Ascot racecourse, Big bang: deregulation of the City of London, Black Monday: stock market crash in 1987, Boris Johnson, bread and circuses, Brexit referendum, British Empire, clean water, computerized trading, congestion charging, Corn Laws, cross-subsidies, Crossrail, deindustrialization, estate planning, Frank Gehry, gentrification, housing crisis, informal economy, Isaac Newton, Jane Jacobs, John Snow's cholera map, light touch regulation, Louis Blériot, negative equity, new economy, New Urbanism, Northern Rock, Peace of Westphalia, place-making, railway mania, Richard Florida, Right to Buy, South Sea Bubble, sovereign wealth fund, strikebreaker, the built environment, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, the market place, Traffic in Towns by Colin Buchanan, upwardly mobile, urban renewal, Winter of Discontent, women in the workforce

The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power by Daniel Yergin

anti-communist, Ascot racecourse, Ayatollah Khomeini, bank run, Berlin Wall, book value, British Empire, Carl Icahn, colonial exploitation, Columbine, continuation of politics by other means, cuban missile crisis, disinformation, do-ocracy, energy security, European colonialism, Exxon Valdez, financial independence, fudge factor, geopolitical risk, guns versus butter model, Ida Tarbell, informal economy, It's morning again in America, joint-stock company, junk bonds, land reform, liberal capitalism, managed futures, megacity, Michael Milken, Mikhail Gorbachev, Monroe Doctrine, new economy, North Sea oil, oil rush, oil shale / tar sands, oil shock, old-boy network, postnationalism / post nation state, price stability, RAND corporation, rent-seeking, Ronald Reagan, shareholder value, stock buybacks, Suez canal 1869, Suez crisis 1956, Thomas Malthus, tontine, vertical integration, Yom Kippur War

1967: Israel, the War, and the Year That Transformed the Middle East by Tom Segev

affirmative action, anti-communist, Ascot racecourse, Berlin Wall, Boycotts of Israel, British Empire, cuban missile crisis, distributed generation, friendly fire, full employment, ghettoisation, government statistician, illegal immigration, invisible hand, mass immigration, Mount Scopus, open borders, Ronald Reagan, Yom Kippur War, young professional

Their parents liked the neighborhood because they knew the apartment would keep its value, and the couple decided to settle in Rimon because of the other young couples who lived there. These sort of people, who seemed to enjoy life and have faith in the future, also starred in a series of ads for Ascot cigarettes, named for the British racecourse. In January 1966, one such advertisement featured a photograph taken at the entry to a Picasso exhibition in the Tel Aviv Museum.* Yehoshua and Gili Bar-Dayan lived in their own apartment in Rishon Lezion. They were the kind of Israelis sometimes described as “the salt of the earth.”