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by Henry Hitchings

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  __________, ‘Spoiled Rotten’, New Yorker, 2 July 2012

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  __________, Family Britain: 1951–57 (London: Bloomsbury, 2009)

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  __________, ‘Miss Manners on Office Etiquette’, Fortune, 6 November 1989

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  Alice-Leone Moats, No Nice Girl Swears (London: Cassell, 1933)

  Joe Moran, Queuing for Beginners: The Story of Daily Life from Breakfast to Bedtime (London: Profile, 2007)

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  __________, The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England (London: Bodley Head, 2012)

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  __________, Mind the Gap: The New Class Divide in Britain (London: Short Books, 2004)

  Harry Mount, How England Made the English (London: Viking, 2012)

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  Adam Nicolson, The Gentry: Stories of the English (London: HarperPress, 2011)

  Harold Nicolson, Good Behaviour (London: Constable, 1955)

  Andrew O’Hagan, ‘A Car of One’s Own’, London Review of Books, 11 June 2009

  George Orwell, Essays, ed. John Carey (London: Everyman, 2002)

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  Elsie Clews Parsons, Fear and Conventionality (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997)

  Talcott Parsons, The Social System (Glencoe, Illinois: Free Press, 1951)

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  Jeremy Paxman, The English: A Portrait of A People (London: Penguin, 1999)

  Henry Peacham, The Compleat Gentleman, 2nd edn (London: Francis Constable, 1634)

  __________, The Art of Living in London (London: John Gyles, 1642)

  Arthur Stanley Pease, ‘The Omen of Sneezing’, Classical Philology 6 (1911), 429–43

  Samuel Pepys, Diary, ed. Robert Latham and William Matthews, 11 vols. (London: Bell and Hyman, 1970–83)

  Nikolaus Pevsner, The Englishness of English Art (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1964)

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  Steven Pinker, The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window into Human Nature (London: Penguin, 2008)

  __________, The Better Angels of Our Nature: The Decline of Violence in History and Its Causes (London: Penguin Allen Lane, 2011)

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  The Autobiography of Francis Place (1771–1854), ed. Mary Thale (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972)

  John Playford, The English Dancing Master (London: Thomas Harper, 1651)

  Richard Pomfret, The Age of Equality: The Twentieth Century in Economic Perspective (Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 2011)

  Ithiel de Sola Pool (ed.), The Social Impact of the Telephone (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1977)

  Emily Post, Etiquette: In Society, In Business, In Politics and At Home (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1922)

  __________, Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage, 10th edn (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1960)

  Michael Prestwich, Knight: The Medieval Warrior’s (Unofficial) Manual (London: Thames & Hudson, 2010)

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  Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000)

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  Jonathan Raban, Soft City (London: Picador, 2008)

  L. J. Ransone, ‘Good Form’ in England, by an American Resident in the United Kingdom (New York: Appleton, 1888)

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  Bruce Redford, The Converse of the Pen (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986)

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  The Works of John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, ed. Harold Love (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999)

  Ben Rogers, Beef and Liberty: Roast Beef, John Bull and the English Nation (London: Chatto & Windus, 2003)

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  Bertrand Russell, Mortals and Others (London: Routledge, 2009)

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  Andrew St George, The Descent of Manners: Etiquette, Rules and the Victorians (London: Chatto & Windus, 1993)

  Michael J. Sandel, What Money Can’t Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets (London: Penguin Allen Lane, 2012)

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  Ron Scapp and Brian Seitz (eds.), Etiquette: Reflections on Contemporary Comportment (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2007)

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Learning How to Behave: A Historical Study of American Etiquette Books (New York: Macmillan, 1947)

  Dietmar Schloss (ed.), Civilizing America: Manners and Civility in American Literature and Culture (Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2009)

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  Susie Scott, Making Sense of Everyday Life (Cambridge: Polity, 2009)

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  Thomas Shadwell, The Humorists (London: Henry Herringman, 1671)

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  George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion (London: Penguin, 2000)

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  Thomas Tegg et al., A Present for an Apprentice (London: Thomas Tegg, 1838)

  Margaret Thatcher, The Downing Street Years (London: Harper Perennial, 1995)

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  __________, The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)

  Stephen Tignor, High Strung: Bjorn Borg, John McEnroe, and the Untold Story of Tennis’s Fiercest Rivalry (New York: Harper, 2011)

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