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Education in Britain 1750-1914
W. B. STEPHENS, 1998 Basingstoke, Macmillan
L13.99 paperback
This book is the first attempt for many years to write a fairly comprehensive history of education in Britain during the period of industrialisation. As Bill Stephens explains in his introduction, there are already a number of accounts of aspects of this history which focus on the politics of schooling so this book attempts to offer an overview which is more concerned with the links between social and economic change and the development of the education system.
The task is a daunting one and Stephens brings to it his own extensive knowledge of elementary schooling and the...