Lord Shaftesbury and Social-industrial Progress
Author: John Wesley Bready
Publisher: London : G. Allen & Unwin
Published: 1927
Total Pages: 472
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: John Wesley Bready
Publisher: London : G. Allen & Unwin
Published: 1927
Total Pages: 472
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Geoffrey B. A M. Finlayson
Publisher: Regent College Publishing
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 644
ISBN-13: 9781573833141
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Laura M. Mair
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-03-22
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1351185535
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Focusing on the interaction between teachers and scholars, this book provides an intimate account of "ragged schools" that challenges existing scholarship on evangelical child-saving movements and Victorian philanthropy. With Lord Shaftesbury as their figurehead, these institutions provided a free education to impoverished children. The primary purpose of the schools, however, was the salvation of children’s souls. Using promotional literature and local school documents, this book contrasts the public portrayal of children and teachers with that found in practice. It draws upon evidence from schools in Scotland and England, giving insight into the achievements and challenges of individual institutions. An intimate account is constructed using the journals maintained by Martin Ware, the superintendent of a North London school, alongside a cache of letters that children sent him. This combination of personal and national perspectives adds nuance to the narratives often imposed upon historic philanthropic movements. Investigating how children responded to the evangelistic messages and educational opportunities ragged schools offered, this book will be of keen interest to historians of education, emigration, religion, as well as of the nineteenth century more broadly.