EXPLAIN – next historiography
Socio –
Fluidity 287 words (second para) ie hierarchy was more open
Barriers between sectors were perhaps more permeable than first noted, due to fluidity in the City and elite.
DAUNTON: In London is not the tight, cohesive nature of the society so much as the lack of any rigorous
controls and an endemic fluidity. The cycle of inheritance and succession within family firms, which was
likely to produce a considerable turnover. The commodity cycle. The picture was one of change and fluidity
rather than closure. In the 1850 Flower and his partner Salting…virtually opted out of the wool business;
they were succeeded by Dalgety as the dominant firm
INGHAM: Chapman/Pax Britannia: the general merchant’s traditional escape route into merchant banking
was now dominated by haute finance…consider other transmutations…the most important of which was the
investment group
EXPLAIN FLUIDITY
There was some fluidity between sectors. The industrialists would have functional contact with merchant
bankers and did not have distinct interests. Manufacturers became gentrified by assimilating into the
tertiary/sector, first banking then investing, demonstrating elite openness for new wealth. To Marxists’
disappointment, manufacturers did not create a distinct social group. Open elite idea as plausible –
industrailists won 1910 free trade election, rich industrialists as philanthropist/gentlemanly values eg Salt
donating money to schools for community and debate about his influence. Focus on home towns does not
make industrialists subordinate necessarily
There was fluidity in the City. High firm mortality complemented by foreign merchant banking families
entering Lodnon, like the Rothschilds and Baring, meant many different faces entered and left London. EG
PHILIP FLOWER, SALTING no consistent advice from original owners so business failed in later generations,
meaning competitors (Dalgety) could move into London and take place as an elite.
Link businessmen moving into tertiary led to a dampening of economic endeavour (daunton)
Hierarchy 287 words (first para) ie elite was more rigid
Insurmountable walls around elite were like a maze with directions that only gentlemen knew how to
navigate. Directions gave structure about living life as a gentlemanly capitalist (business behaviour,
education/upbringing and marriage)
INGHAM: The interrelations between the City’s global clearing house role, the persistence of a traditional
status order within the ruling class, the burgeoning service sectors of an advanced society and territorial
expansion, all suffused with the quality of gentlemanliness.
CAIN HOPKINS: industrialists were contained within a power system they neither directed nor controlled, ALSO principles of good
government..political economy fashioned a new vision of progress, a complex fusion of Benthamite utilities and Tory virtues…a
programme of moral and material advancement
How gentlemen at top and gentlemanly qualities incl education but note ingham saying inaccurate. Beforre
1880, aristocrats/landowners had cultural hegemony over tertiary sector. Atavists met pseudo-bourgeoisie
around approx. 1880 with common leisure time, two epochs collide/mix. Qualities of gentlemanliness from
school and religion from which rich could educate. Code of honour for business and colonial management.
Solidarity through concentration in London.
Exclusionary to industrialists largely. Marriage in dynastic families to keep business at top within new elite,
moving new rich into their families. This as a consequence – Lisle Williams. London distanced from provinces
and industriary – for work and leisure as show of status not straining to work. Squabbles not harmonious
Socio –
Fluidity 287 words (second para) ie hierarchy was more open
Barriers between sectors were perhaps more permeable than first noted, due to fluidity in the City and elite.
DAUNTON: In London is not the tight, cohesive nature of the society so much as the lack of any rigorous
controls and an endemic fluidity. The cycle of inheritance and succession within family firms, which was
likely to produce a considerable turnover. The commodity cycle. The picture was one of change and fluidity
rather than closure. In the 1850 Flower and his partner Salting…virtually opted out of the wool business;
they were succeeded by Dalgety as the dominant firm
INGHAM: Chapman/Pax Britannia: the general merchant’s traditional escape route into merchant banking
was now dominated by haute finance…consider other transmutations…the most important of which was the
investment group
EXPLAIN FLUIDITY
There was some fluidity between sectors. The industrialists would have functional contact with merchant
bankers and did not have distinct interests. Manufacturers became gentrified by assimilating into the
tertiary/sector, first banking then investing, demonstrating elite openness for new wealth. To Marxists’
disappointment, manufacturers did not create a distinct social group. Open elite idea as plausible –
industrailists won 1910 free trade election, rich industrialists as philanthropist/gentlemanly values eg Salt
donating money to schools for community and debate about his influence. Focus on home towns does not
make industrialists subordinate necessarily
There was fluidity in the City. High firm mortality complemented by foreign merchant banking families
entering Lodnon, like the Rothschilds and Baring, meant many different faces entered and left London. EG
PHILIP FLOWER, SALTING no consistent advice from original owners so business failed in later generations,
meaning competitors (Dalgety) could move into London and take place as an elite.
Link businessmen moving into tertiary led to a dampening of economic endeavour (daunton)
Hierarchy 287 words (first para) ie elite was more rigid
Insurmountable walls around elite were like a maze with directions that only gentlemen knew how to
navigate. Directions gave structure about living life as a gentlemanly capitalist (business behaviour,
education/upbringing and marriage)
INGHAM: The interrelations between the City’s global clearing house role, the persistence of a traditional
status order within the ruling class, the burgeoning service sectors of an advanced society and territorial
expansion, all suffused with the quality of gentlemanliness.
CAIN HOPKINS: industrialists were contained within a power system they neither directed nor controlled, ALSO principles of good
government..political economy fashioned a new vision of progress, a complex fusion of Benthamite utilities and Tory virtues…a
programme of moral and material advancement
How gentlemen at top and gentlemanly qualities incl education but note ingham saying inaccurate. Beforre
1880, aristocrats/landowners had cultural hegemony over tertiary sector. Atavists met pseudo-bourgeoisie
around approx. 1880 with common leisure time, two epochs collide/mix. Qualities of gentlemanliness from
school and religion from which rich could educate. Code of honour for business and colonial management.
Solidarity through concentration in London.
Exclusionary to industrialists largely. Marriage in dynastic families to keep business at top within new elite,
moving new rich into their families. This as a consequence – Lisle Williams. London distanced from provinces
and industriary – for work and leisure as show of status not straining to work. Squabbles not harmonious
