The Edwardians, The Remaking of British Society

« History of British Society » (edited by E.J. Hobsbawm). Hardcover, dj, in-8, xi-382 pp., illustrations, tables, bibliography, index. Important book for methodology of counting inequalities.

The following diagram is taken from Chiozza Money's book Riches and Poverty (1905):


Thompson: "... we know more about the distribution of wealth in the Edwardian population than in contemporary (1975) Britain." (11)
"Nine-tenths of the LAND was landlord-owned before 1914, rather than owner-occupied, (...)" (13)