Download or read book Life of William Ellis Founder of the Birkbeck Schools written by Edmund Kell Blyth and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Birkbeck written by Joanna Bourke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birkbeck traces the 200-year history of Birkbeck, University of London from its founding at a time when social elites deplored the notion of educated working people to the present day. Joanna Bourke writes a lively history of the institution, and how it contributed to the shaping of modern British higher education. Two hundred years ago, Birkbeck was founded as the London Mechanics' Institution (LMI). When it was established in 1823, one third of all men and half of all women were unable to read or write. British elites were vehemently hostile to educating working people. The country was in political turmoil and it was feared that education would destroy society. This was the context in which the LMI was established. From its foundation, it was unique. Birkbeck traces its history from 1823 to the present, with Joanna Bourke using the history of Birkbeck to reflect on life and culture in London over the past two centuries. What does it mean to be educated? Why have Birkbeck's students been prepared to give up so much in order to study for a higher degree? How does education help us become fully human and self-fulfilled by learning how to use all our faculties - knowledge, imagination, sympathy? The story of Birkbeck contains some blood, oceans of scholarly sweat, and not a few tears. But it is also a story of laughter, intellectual excitement, scholarly eccentricity, collective as well as personal ambition, and, most of all, the quirky passions and personalities that make up the Birkbeck community. It is a story of a unique university but also of higher education of Britain. It shows how knowledge can empower people to better themselves and improve the world.

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Download or read book The Life of a Conspirator written by Thomas Longueville and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-04 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a biography of Sir Everard Digby, a member of a group of English Catholics who orchestrated the infamous Gunpowder Plot of 1605. Despite being raised Protestant and marrying a Protestant, Digby converted to Catholicism after being influenced by Jesuit priest John Gerard. He later met Robert Catesby, who masterminded the plan to blow up the House of Lords with gunpowder and spark a popular revolt, with the ultimate goal of restoring a Catholic monarch to the English throne. The book explores Digby's motivations and his role in the plot, as well as the broader political and religious context of the time.

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Download or read book Revolutionary Domesticity in the Italian Risorgimento written by Diana Moore and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-07-14 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines how a group of transnational British-Italian women affiliated with the exiled patriots of the Italian Left repurposed traditionally feminine activities, such as fundraising, gift-giving, maternity, and memory collection, to make a substantial contribution to Italian Unification and state-building. Through their actions, Mary Chambers, Sara Nathan, Giorgina Saffi, Julia Salis Schwabe, and Jessie White Mario transcended the boundaries of acceptable behavior for middle-class women and participated in the broader female emancipation movement. By drawing attention to their activities, this book reveals how nineteenth-century female activists achieved their most revolutionary goals by using conservative, domestic, or anti-Catholic language. Adding to the growing understanding of the Italian Risorgimento as a transnational phenomenon, it also shows how non-Catholic and non-Italian women participated in the creation and development of the Italian state. Finally, the book argues for the continuing importance of religion in both politics and philanthropy throughout the nineteenth century."

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Download or read book A Social History of Education in England written by John Lawson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-28 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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