Stiff Upper Lip: Secrets, Crimes and the Schooling of a Ruling Class

Author: Alex Renton Format: Hardback Number of Pages: 416 'A brave and necessary book' GUARDIAN 'Shocking, gripping and sobering' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH This is the story of generations of parents, Britain's richest and grandest, who believed that being miserable at school was necessary to make a good and successful citizen. Childish suffering was a price they accepted for the preservation of their class, and their entitlement. The children who were moulded by this misery and abuse went on - as they...Read more