A History of Harrow School, 1324-1991"Avoiding polemic or apologia, this new history of Harrow, the first for over half a century, and the first to be based on unfettered access to the school and governors' archives, investigates the school's governors, masters, pupils, finances, social position, and curriculum, within the context of shifting political, cultural, and educational circumstances. It is a contribution to the social history of Britain as well as a critical study of a famous school. Unusually for school histories, this book, supported by a full academic apparatus of source references, frankly confronts the school's failings as well as its successes; its financial, educational, and sexual scandals as openly as its well-publicized eminence as the school of Byron, Churchill (and six other British prime ministers), and Nehru."--BOOK JACKET. |
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Contenido
List of Plates xii | 17 |
Introduction I | 1 |
Origins 7 | 7 |
The Origins of a Modern School | 14 |
Creation 18 | 18 |
Birth | 36 |
The Origins of a National Institution | 45 |
The Restoration School 16611691 | 60 |
Charles John Vaughan 18451859 | 245 |
Reform | 284 |
Montagu Butler Sentiment | 303 |
New Issues | 375 |
The Public School Profession | 385 |
Rich and Poor | 392 |
Politics Governors | 405 |
Changing Identities 19141991 | 440 |
Heirs and Graces 16911746 | 72 |
The Classical School 17461785 | 97 |
Joseph Drury and Byrons Harrow | 140 |
Decadence and Change 18051844 | 167 |
Teachers and Taught 19141991 | 488 |
Conclusion | 565 |
575 | |
Términos y frases comunes
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