And here is the table of contents.

The Modern British City - publication November 2025 - now available for pre-order from lundhumphries.com.

More eye-opening work from Raj Chetty: mild preferences for poorer children at elite US universities but very strong preferences for very rich children. (Only part of the over-representation of the rich: admissions bias, but also differential performance and differential rates of application.)

And the same percentage share decline over the same period in the US (from Bachelor’s Degrees in the Humanities | American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org) though this doesn't appear to have been updated since 2018).

And here's History as a proportion of all degrees (with some missing data points, but still secular decline over similar period).

Here are the numbers as a percentage (of degrees) in the UK, which show a clear inflection point around 2012 and continuing since.