Ronald Stanley Neale

Background

Ronald Stanley Neale was born on February 3, 1927 in London, United Kingdom. He was the son of Horace Stanley, a carpenter, and Alice (Johnson) Neale.

Education

Neale's education commenced at Southall County School and continued at the small Midlands grammar school of Rugeley, after Neale and his family were evacuated to Staffordshire. After his elementary education, Neale attended the University College in Leicester, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in 1951 and a Diploma of Education just a year later. Eleven more years later Neale graduated from the Bristol University with master's degree.

Career

R. S. Neale taught history at the City of Bath Technical College for twelve years, as well as at the University of New England in Armidale from 1964 till 1985. Also he was a vice-president of Bath Labour Party for a year from 1963.

He had written or edited several books about English history from a Marxist perspective. His first Class and Ideology in the Nineteenth Century, was published in 1972. Neale is also the author of Bath 1680-1850: A Social History and Writing Marxist History: British Society, Economy and Culture since 1700.

In Class and Ideology in the Nineteenth Century, Neale replaced the traditional three class model of British Victorian society with a division into five classes. In addition to the better known upper, middle, and working classes, Neale posited a “middling class,” which was on the low end of enfranchisement and which was responsible for much of the radical political movement of the time.

In Bath 1680-1850: A Social History, Neale focuses on the development of the famed British resort town.

Works

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  • Class and Ideology in the Nineteenth Century

    (First published in 1972, this collection of essays by R. ...)

  • Bath, 1680-1850: A Social History
  • Class in English History, 1680-1850

Membership

Neale was a member of Economic History Society, Australian Historical Association, as well as Australian and New Zealand Economic History Society.

Connections

Neale married Margaret Mary Turner on July 2, 1949. The couple had 4 children - Anne Elizabeth, Patrick John, Andrew Charles and Katharine Jane.

Father:

Horace Stanley Neale

Mother:

Alise (Johnson) Neale

Wife:

Margaret Mary Turner

Daughter:

Anne Elizabeth Neale

Son:

Patrick John Neale

Son:

Andrew Charles Neale

Daughter:

Katharine Jane Neale