Articles about 'working class'

Sustained investment in education and opportunities for poorer children is essential to reduce inequality in the UK, Cambridge education expert Anna Vignoles has said at a Rustat Conference held at Jesus College.

The Beatles' song A Hard Day’s Night was released 50 years ago today. Its runaway success in the charts overlapped with a major sociological study of the newly-affluent working class that features in Lennon and McCartney’s lyrics. Cambridge historian Dr Jon Lawrence discusses what this study reveals about perceptions of class identity in 1960s Britain.