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Education in Britain, 1750–1914

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  • © 1998

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Authors:
  1. W. B. Stephens

    1. University College London, UK
      University of Leeds, UK

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  • Treats education broadly, embracing informal aspects like the spread of reading and basic literacy and the part played by cultural activities, as well as developments in the provision of formal elementary, secondary, adult and higher education
    Covers England, Wales and Scotland. No other recent textbook covers the educational history of all three countries
    Provides critical assessment of the varying strengths of opposing viewpoints on numerous topics of historical controversy, drawing on recent research

Part of the book series: Social History in Perspective (SHP)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Elementary Education to the 1860s

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    Pages 1-20

  3. School Attendance and Literacy: 1750 to the Later Nineteenth Century

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    Pages 21-39

  4. Secondary and Higher Education to the 1860s

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    Pages 40-55

  5. Education, Science and Industrialization, 1750s–1850s

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    Pages 56-76

  6. Elementary Education from the 1860s to 1914

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    Pages 77-97

  7. Secondary and Higher Education from the 1860s to 1914

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    Pages 98-124

  8. Science, Technology, Education and the Economy from the 1850s to 1914

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    Pages 125-143

  9. The Growth of a Literate Culture

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    Pages 144-161

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 162-220
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About this book

This concise study covers the development of education throughout Great Britain from the Industrial Revolution to the Great War: a period in which urbanization, industrialization and population growth posed huge social and political problems, and education became one of the fiercest areas of conflict in society.

Authors and Affiliations

  • University College London, UK

    W. B. Stephens

  • University of Leeds, UK

    W. B. Stephens

About the author

W.B. STEPHENS is Honorary Research Fellow at University College, London. Until retirement he was Reader in the University of Leeds, where he was a sometime Dean of the Faculty of Education and a Curator of the University's Museum of Education.

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