Don’t pee in the lift
Stefan Collini: Keeping Up with the Toynbees, 6 June 2024
An Uneasy Inheritance: My Family and Other Radicals
by Polly Toynbee.
Atlantic, 436 pp., £10.99, June,978 1 83895 837 4 Show More
by Polly Toynbee.
Atlantic, 436 pp., £10.99, June,
“... owners of Castle Howard and much else. Arnold J. Toynbee’s uncle, also called Arnold, had died young in 1883 after a promising beginning as a social reformer and radical economic historian (he is credited with giving currency to the term ‘the Industrial Revolution’); Toynbee Hall in London’s East End is named after him. This skeletal family tree ... ”