History of Sedbergh School, 1525-1925
Author: Henry Lowther Clarke (abp. of Melbourne)
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 290
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Henry Lowther Clarke (abp. of Melbourne)
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Published: 1925
Total Pages: 290
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: British Museum. Department of Printed Books
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Published: 1927
Total Pages: 1586
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Christopher Charles Booth
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780871692542
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An excellent biography of John Haygarth, an important 18th-century physician who is most well known for his visionary plan to eliminate smallpox from Great Britain through the careful practice of inoculation & isolation. Haygarth made many more innovative & far-reaching contributions to medicine & to philanthropy. He became a physician in Chester in 1767. There he introduced separate wards in the Chester Infirmary where patients with fever could be isolated & cared for. It was the stimulus for the development of the fever hospitals of 19th cent. England. He also played a major role in the foundation of the Bath Provident Institution for savings, a model for the savings-bank movement in England. Black & white illustrations.
Author: Joan Simon
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1966
Total Pages: 472
ISBN-13: 9780521296793
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book discusses educational developments during a crucial period of English history in their social context, revising a long-standing interpretation of the effect of Reformation legislation. Tracing trends from the fifteenth to the seventeenth century, it is in three parts. The first considers the pattern in the later maiddle ages and the conditions favouring the spread of humanist ideas which were to be adapted and applied at the Reformation. In Part II there is a detailed survey of measures takeen under Henry VIII and during the reign of Edward VI when state intervention to control the organisation and curriculum of schools and universities laid the foundations of the modern system of education. Finally, after a review of the relation between educational and social change, the focus is on three main aspects during the conservative Elizabethan age: consolidation of the school system, the pattern devised for the institution of the gentleman; the extension of the popular education fostered by the puritan ethic and the pressure of practical needs - forecasting the next major move for educational reform in the mid-seventeenth century.
Author: David Turner
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015-04-28
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 0300213131
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →To many in the United Kingdom, the British public school remains the disliked and mistrusted embodiment of privilege and elitism. They have educated many of the country’s top bankers and politicians over the centuries right up to the present, including the present Prime Minister. David Turner’s vibrant history of Great Britain’s public schools, from the foundation of Winchester College in 1382 to the modern day, offers a fresh reappraisal of the controversial educational system. Turner argues that public schools are, in fact, good for the nation and are presently enjoying their true “Golden Age,” countering the long-held belief that these institutions achieved their greatest glory during Great Britain’s Victorian Era. Turner’s engrossing and enlightening work is rife with colorful stories of schoolboy revolts, eccentric heads, shocking corruption, and financial collapse. His thoughtful appreciation of these learning establishments follows the progression of public schools from their sometimes brutal and inglorious pasts through their present incarnations as vital contributors to the economic, scientific, and political future of the country.