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Ross McKibbin

Ross McKibbin is a fellow of St John’s College, Oxford, and the author of Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51. His edition of Marie Stopes’s Married Love is published by Oxford.

From the London Review dated 28 November 2002

Nothing More Divisive

One does not have to be a genius to realise that it is physically, intellectually and mathematically impossible for everyone to have a choice of secondary school should they choose to exercise it. The notion of diversity is simply an ideological dodge to conceal the fact that selection is being reintroduced to favour some at the expense of others. [ read more . . . ]

Selected bibliography

  • Married Love by Marie Stopes, edited by Ross McKibbin (2004)
  • Consensus or Coercion? The State, the People and Social Cohesion in Post-War Britain foreword by Ross McKibbin (2001)
  • Classes and Cultures: England 1918-51 (1998)
  • Ideologies of Class: Social Relations in Britain, 1880-1950 (1990)
  • The Evolution of the Labour Party, 1910-24 (1984)

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