There is a small eddy in the discourse about boarding schools, for example here and here. Just a couple of books and articles, but I think they represent a deeper shift in the hidden iceberg of English middle class opinion. Fifty years ago, sending children to live at boarding school at the age of, say, eight was a normal thing to do. Today, to many of the same people, including boarding school kids themselves, it seems weird and wrong.
Enjoyed this Davey boy. See you after scrubbins for flapjacks with Blisely
“had the same level of prestige and fame that a Harvard president does now,” so, none?
Fatality!!