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Flamboyant, cultured and refined, aristocracy is often seen as a national treasure. Lords of Misrule takes a different view and considers the role of an aristocracy behaving badly. This is a book about the political, social and moral failings of aristocracy and the ways in which they have featured in political rhetoric. Drawing on the views of critics of aristocracy, it explores the dark side of power without responsibility. Less 'patrician paragons' than dissolute and debauched debtors, the aristocrats featured here undermined, rather than augmented, the fabric of national life. For the first time, Lords of Misrule recaptures the views of those radicals and reformers who were prepared to contemplate a Britain without aristocrats.

Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Context -- Theoretical framework -- 1 Credit, Kinship and Community: the Impact of Credit upon Working Class Social Networks -- The debate about community -- Working class communities during the interwar period -- Working class communities during the post-war period -- Conclusion -- 2 'Taking an Interest in your Neighbours, or just Taking Interest from your Neighbours?' Illegal Moneylending and the Working Class -- The 'street' moneylender on Tyneside -- From 'street' lenders to loansharks -- Loansharks on Tyneside -- Conclusion -- 3 'The Changing Fortunes of a Petit Bourgeois Chameleon' the Relationship between Small Shopkeepers and Working Class Communities -- The shopkeeper and the community -- The gradual decline of the corner shop -- The class position of the small shopkeeper -- The Petit Bourgeois Chameleon -- Class and contradiction -- Small shopkeepers and the community after 1945 -- The impact of ethnicity -- The breakdown of trust -- Conclusion -- 4 'Just Like One of the Family' the Agent, the Established Firm and Working Class Credit before 1945 -- Introduction -- A durable form of credit-trading -- The story of Empire Stores -- The story of 'The Provi' -- The role of the agent -- The role of the agent on Tyneside before 1945 -- Conclusion -- 5 'Still One of the Family' the Role of the Agent and the Established Firm within Working Class Credit after 1945 -- The role of the agent on Tyneside after 1945 -- The Full-Time agent -- Mail order -- Conclusion -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

As visions of the end-times accelerate under neoliberal capitalism, corporations and governments are moving their valuable digital data into that most iconic end-of-the-world architecture: the nuclear bunker. This article traces the rise of the bunker as a prominent architectural form for the industrial storage of data. In doing so, it introduces the concept of 'data preparedness' to explore one way that data centres and cloud back-up providers strategically position themselves and their clients in imaginative relation to threatening futures. Rebranded as an 'ultra-secure' data centre, the bunker is no longer orientated towards the omnipresent threat of nuclear terror that structured everyday life during the Cold War. Rather, the bunkered data centre promises preparedness for an existential threat that lurks behind the screens of daily life in the digital world: the unending prospect of data loss or IT system failure.