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The founder of the school was Abraham Colfe.
Author : Leland Lewis Duncan
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Page : 302 pages
File Size : 49,43 MB
Release : 1910
Category : Lewisham (London, England)
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The founder of the school was Abraham Colfe.
Author : Leland Lewis Duncan
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Page : 32 pages
File Size : 23,75 MB
Release : 1902
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Author : Leland Lewis Duncan
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Page : 26 pages
File Size : 11,64 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Lewisham (London, England)
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Author : Ian Green
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 49,48 MB
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1317119614
This volume is the first attempt to assess the impact of both humanism and Protestantism on the education offered to a wide range of adolescents in the hundreds of grammar schools operating in England between the Reformation and the Enlightenment. By placing that education in the context of Lutheran, Calvinist and Jesuit education abroad, it offers an overview of the uses to which Latin and Greek were put in English schools, and identifies the strategies devised by clergy and laity in England for coping with the tensions between classical studies and Protestant doctrine. It also offers a reassessment of the role of the 'godly' in English education, and demonstrates the many ways in which a classical education came to be combined with close support for the English Crown and established church. One of the major sources used is the school textbooks which were incorporated into the 'English Stock' set up by leading members of the Stationers' Company of London and reproduced in hundreds of thousands of copies during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Although the core of classical education remained essentially the same for two centuries, there was a growing gulf between the methods by which classics were taught in elite institutions such as Winchester and Westminster and in the many town and country grammar schools in which translations or bilingual versions of many classical texts were given to weaker students. The success of these new translations probably encouraged editors and publishers to offer those adults who had received little or no classical education new versions of works by Aesop, Cicero, Ovid, Virgil, Seneca and Caesar. This fascination with ancient Greece and Rome left its mark not only on the lifestyle and literary tastes of the educated elite, but also reinforced the strongly moralistic outlook of many of the English laity who equated virtue and good works with pleasing God and meriting salvation.
Author : Christopher Tyerman
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Page : 704 pages
File Size : 34,12 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780198227960
This is the first modern history of one of the most famous schools in the English-speaking world. It takes an even-handed approach, covering the schools failings as well as its successes. It includes frank discussions of Harrow's financial, educational, and sexual scandals along with a survey of its many great moments as the school of Byron, Churchill (and six other prime ministers), and Nehru.
Author : John Lawson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 27,32 MB
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134531958
Originally published in 1973,this book describes the medieval origins of the British education system, and the transformations successive historical events – such as the Reformation, the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution – have wrought on it. It examines the effect on the educational pattern of such major cultural upheavals as the Renaissance; it looks at the different parts played by church and state, and the influence of new social and educational philosophies.
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Page : 498 pages
File Size : 37,30 MB
Release : 1911
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
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Author : Karen Attar
Publisher : Facet Publishing
Page : 609 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1783300167
This directory is a handy on-volume discovery tool that will allow readers to locate rare book and special collections in the British Isles. Fully updated since the second edition was published in 1997. this comprehensive and up-to-date guide encompasses collections held in libraries, archives, museums and private hands. The Directory: Provides a national overview of rare book and special collections for those interested in seeing quickly and easily what a library holds Directs researchers to the libraries most relevant for their research Assists libraries considering acquiring new special collections to assess the value of such collections beyond the institution,showing how they fit into a ‘unique and distinctive’ model. Each entry in the Directory provides background information on the library and its purpose, full contact details, the quantity of early printed books, information about particular subject and language strengths, information about unique works and important acquisitions, descriptions of named special collections and deposited collections. Readership: Researchers, academic liaison librarians and library managers.
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Page : 824 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release : 1882
Category : Education
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Author : Derek Sumeray
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 17,60 MB
Release : 2011-08-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0747811555
London's buildings are dotted with commemorative plaques. Many are the famous blue plaques, indicating where a famous person was born, lived, stayed, or if a significant event took place there, or an earlier use of the site. This book is a comprehensive gazetteer of all of London's plaques. Using Derek Sumeray's classic book as a basis, this thoroughly revised new edition arranges plaques alphabetically by area, providing a text that is linked to London's geography and, therefore, of greater use to a resident or visitor wanting to explore the famous people and events commemorated in that area.