Identities and Social Change in Britain since 1940 draws extensively on archived qualitative social science data to offer a unique, personal, and challenging account of post war social change in Britain. Mike Savage is one of the UK's foremost historical sociologists and his recent exciting book provides a fascinating insight into the history of the social sciences and their role in the remaking of social class identities in Britain from the 1930s to the present daythis book provides a fascinating consideration of the role of expertise within British 20th-century history and its interaction within the creation of a specialised sociology as an academic subjectit will be of great use to historians and sociologists of post-war Britain.