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Tracing the Drax family’s millions – a story of British landed gentry, slavery and sugar plantations
Journalist and historian Paul Lashmar has published extensive research into the wealthy and influential Drax family of Dorset ...
In March 1974, the then Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey stood up in the House of Commons to present his Budget. As well as doing away with the “largely avoidable” estate duty and ...
Reddit did not respond to SFGATE’s request for comment, but spokesperson Tim Rathschmidt told the New York Times in June that, in Huffman’s reference to “landed gentry,” he was “talking ...
How did Echo Park become so stratified with landed gentry and poverty? There was a plan 50 years ago
It's easy to blame COVID-19 for Echo Park's homeless tensions. But the root of the problem goes back decades. And that history is worth mining now.
In an interview with NBC, Huffman compared Reddit moderators—who dedicate hundreds of hours, if not more, of unpaid work to their communities—to the “landed gentry,” or wealthy people who ...
To note: “landed gentry” refers to the British social class that generationally inherited land, giving them geographic control that lower classes were not entitled to.
“The landed gentry, who controlled the incumbent government, feared that making concessions to the American colonies would intensify the pressure for democratic reforms, thus jeopardizing their ...
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