Atlas of Industrializing Britain, 1780-1914


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First published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.




The City and Education in Four Nations


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The City and Education in Four Nations is a response to a long-standing need for the placing of urban educational study in broader comparative contexts, both historical and international. This volume offers an account of the historical educational experiences of four major English-speaking countries, opening up new research agendas in a variety of fields. An international team of contributors has been assembled, combining historical and educational expertise, and the work should interest scholars in a number of disciplines, including urban history, urban and comparative education, social and public policy, social and cultural history and the history of education.




Unequal Educational Provision in England and Wales


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Published in 1987, Unequal Educational Provision in England and Wales is a valuable contribution to the field of Education.







Education, Economic Change and Society in England 1780-1870


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Moving from a specialist interest in recent years, the study of the history of education has flourished and expanded. Focusing on literacy, this study reviews the history of education in the nineteenth century and the academic debates surrounding it.










Urban Education in the 19th Century


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First published in 1977, Urban Education in the 19th Century is a collection based on the conference papers of the annual 1976 conference for the History of Education Society. The book illustrates a variety of ways of elucidating the connections between education and the city, mainly in nineteenth-century Britain. Essays cover political, geographical, demographic and socio-structural aspects of urbanization. There is an emphasis on comparative studies of urban educational developments and attention is paid to the perceptions of the nineteenth-century city and its problems, especially for child life, as well as to the realities of urban change