Endnotes

  1. 1 50% in 2012 – see Anon., ‘Olympics “dominated by privately educated”’, BBC News (3 August 2012), https://www.bbc.com/news/education-19109724; 32% in 2016 – see Sarah Weale, ‘Third of Britain’s Rio medallists went to private schools’, Guardian (22 August 2016), https://www.theguardian.com/education/2016/aug/22/third-britain-medallists-rio-olympics-private-schools-sutton-trust (both accessed 27 November 2019).
  2. 2 David Kynaston and Francis Green, Engines of Privilege (London: Bloomsbury, 2019), p 8.
  3. 3 Ibid.
  4. 4 The Brits Who Built the Modern World, BBC Four, first aired on 13, 20 and 27 February 2014.
  5. 5 Tristram Hunt, Building Jerusalem: The Rise and Fall of the Victorian City (London: Phoenix, 2005), p 31.
  6. 6 David Kynaston, Family Britain, ...

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