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The landed gentry, or the gentry (sometimes collectively known as the squirearchy), is a largely historical British social class of landowners who could...

fully and accept. His career pointed the transition from the political squirearchy of the eighteenth century to the mass politics of Andrew Jackson's day"...

Otto Hintze described it, replaced the older system with its feudal squirearchy run in the interests of the ruling class, but which in its rudimentary...

"in the wilds of Northumberland, among the uncouth and quarrelsome squirearchical Osbaldistones", while Cathy Earnshaw "has strong similarities with Diana...

after 1850 (by benefactors among the Catholic aristocracy and recusant squirearchy), mainly Benedictine but including a Cistercian Abbey at Mount St. Bernard...

several eminent authors, but attracted a coterie that was dubbed the Squirearchy. He was also a poet and historian, who captained a famous literary cricket-team...

governmental system, which in modern times has sometimes been termed a squirearchy (i.e., dominance of the land-owning gentry). For example, historian Tim...

the squires at this time that modern historians have created the term 'squirearchy'. Politically, during the 19th century, squires tended to be Tories,...

Bourgeoisie and Imperialism embrace the usurers, the merchants, and the feudal squirearchy without to expel the Reformist Bourgeoisie from the Dominant Alliance...

category of Britain's country houses are those that belonged to the squirearchy or landed gentry. These tend either to have evolved from medieval hall...

curriculum of the classics, and mostly served 'the aristocracy and the squirearchy' ; most of the old endowed grammar schools serving a broad social base...

"in the wilds of Northumberland, among the uncouth and quarrelsome squirearchical Osbaldistones", while Cathy Earnshaw "has strong similarities with Diana...

name, frequently parodied in literature as epitomising the wealthy "squirearchy" with an embarrassment of inherited estates. In Canada, name changes...

Pelican Inn in Speenhamland, Berkshire, where the local magistrates or squirearchy devised the system as a means to alleviate hardship caused by a spike...

The subsequent fate of the Georgian poets (inevitably known as the Squirearchy) then became an aspect of the critical debate surrounding modernist poetry...

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condition that the name was used by the beneficiary; the English gentry and "squirearchy" had long encouraged this sort of name changing. Given this strong tradition...

Lancashire and Cumbria, or were part of the Catholic aristocracy and squirearchy. Finally, the famous recusant Maria Fitzherbert, who during this period...

Speenhamland laws, which he saw not only as the last attempt of the squirearchy to preserve the traditional system of production and social order but...

has historically been associated with the English landed gentry and squirearchy within the context of the class structure of the United Kingdom. The...