Meritocracy Revisited - The Michael Young Memorial Lecture by Lord Peter Hennessy

21 October 2013 - Meritocracy Revisited by Lord Peter Hennessy The Michael Young Family and Kinship Memorial Lecture (LECTURE ONLY) The Michael Young Family and Kinship Memorial Lecture at the Royal Society of Medicine by Lord Peter Hennessy, one of the country's foremost historians. The theme of the lecture was Meritocracy Revisited which revisited the predictions and insights of our co-founder Michael Young's famous 1958 work The Rise of the Meritocracy. Following the lecture a lively Q&A session was chaired by leading commentator Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on a panel that also included Grandparents Plus co-founder Jean Stogdon OBE, with an audience of leading academics, journalists, social workers and charity professionals. If you would like to watch the lecture followed by the Q&A session please follow the link below where you can also download transcript of the lecture.