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Book A History of Shrewsbury School  1552 1952

Download or read book A History of Shrewsbury School 1552 1952 written by James Basil Oldham and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A History of Shrewsbury

Download or read book A History of Shrewsbury written by Hugh Owen and published by . This book was released on 1825 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annals of Shrewsbury School

Download or read book Annals of Shrewsbury School written by George William Fisher and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 642 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Notes on benefactors to the library of Shrewsbury school  Repr  from Eddowes s journal

Download or read book Notes on benefactors to the library of Shrewsbury school Repr from Eddowes s journal written by Alfred Tolver Paget and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shrewsbury School Library

Download or read book Shrewsbury School Library written by James B. Oldham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1990. Shrewsbury School dates back to the end o f the sixteenth century, and owes its existence to the provision contained in the Ordinances of 1578. This is a listing and descriptions of the books, bindings and comtents of the library.

Book The Old Boys

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Turner
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2015-04-28
  • ISBN : 0300213131
  • Pages : 367 pages

Download or read book The Old Boys written by David Turner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To many in the United Kingdom, the British public school remains the disliked and mistrusted embodiment of privilege and elitism. They have educated many of the country’s top bankers and politicians over the centuries right up to the present, including the present Prime Minister. David Turner’s vibrant history of Great Britain’s public schools, from the foundation of Winchester College in 1382 to the modern day, offers a fresh reappraisal of the controversial educational system. Turner argues that public schools are, in fact, good for the nation and are presently enjoying their true “Golden Age,” countering the long-held belief that these institutions achieved their greatest glory during Great Britain’s Victorian Era. Turner’s engrossing and enlightening work is rife with colorful stories of schoolboy revolts, eccentric heads, shocking corruption, and financial collapse. His thoughtful appreciation of these learning establishments follows the progression of public schools from their sometimes brutal and inglorious pasts through their present incarnations as vital contributors to the economic, scientific, and political future of the country.

Book A guide  descriptive and historical  through the Town of Shrewsbury

Download or read book A guide descriptive and historical through the Town of Shrewsbury written by W. A. Leighton and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a guide to Shrewsbury, a market town and the county town of Shropshire, England, on the River Severn, 150 miles (240 km) northwest of London. The town center has a largely unspoiled medieval street plan and over 660 listed buildings, including several examples of timber framing from the 15th and 16th centuries. Shrewsbury Castle, a red sandstone fortification, and Shrewsbury Abbey, a former Benedictine monastery, were founded in 1074 and 1083 respectively by the Norman Earl of Shrewsbury, Roger de Montgomery. The town is the birthplace of Charles Darwin and is where he spent 27 years of his life.

Book Shrewsbury School Register 1798 1898

Download or read book Shrewsbury School Register 1798 1898 written by Shrewsbury School (Shrewsbury, England) and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shrewsbury School Register  1734 1908

Download or read book Shrewsbury School Register 1734 1908 written by Shrewsbury School (Shrewsbury, England) and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Public Schools and Private Education

Download or read book Public Schools and Private Education written by Colin Shrosbree and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shrewsbury School Library

Download or read book Shrewsbury School Library written by James B. Oldham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-28 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1990. Shrewsbury School dates back to the end o f the sixteenth century, and owes its existence to the provision contained in the Ordinances of 1578. This is a listing and descriptions of the books, bindings and comtents of the library.

Book Football  The First Hundred Years

Download or read book Football The First Hundred Years written by Adrian Harvey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the creation of Britain's national game has often been told. According to the accepted wisdom, the refined football games created by English public schools in the 1860s subsequently became the sports of the masses. Football, The First Hundred Years, provides a revisionist history of the game, challenging previously widely-accepted beliefs. Harvey argues that established football history does not correspond with the facts. Football, as played by the 'masses' prior to the adoption of the public school codes is almost always portrayed as wild and barbaric. This view may require considerable modification in the light of Harvey's research. Football's First One Hundred Years provides a very detailed picture of the football played outside the confines of the public schools, revealing a culture that was every bit as sophisticated and influential as that found within their prestigious walls. Football, The First Hundred Years sets forth a completely revisionist thesis, offering a different perspective on almost every aspect of the established history of the formative years of the game. The book will be of great interest to sports historians and football enthusiasts alike.

Book Philip Sidney

Download or read book Philip Sidney written by Alan Stewart and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-10-31 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courtier, poet, soldier, diplomat - Philip Sidney was one of the most promising young men of his age. Son of Elizabeth I's deputy in Ireland, nephew and heir to her favourite, Leicester, he was tipped for high office - and even to inherit the throne. But Sidney soon found himself caught up in the intricate politics of Elizabeth's court and forced to become as Machiavellian as everyone around him if he was to achieve his ambitions. Against a backdrop of Elizabethan intrigue and the battle between Protestant and Catholic for predominance in Europe, Alan Stewart tells the riveting story of Philip Sidney's struggle to suceed. Seeing that his continental allies had a greater sense of his importance that his English contamporaries, Philip turned his attention to Europe. He was made a French baron at seventeen, corresponded with leading foreign scholars, considered marriage proposals from two princesses and, at the time of his tragically early death, was being openly spoken of as the next ruler of the Netherlands.

Book Annual Report of the American Historical Association

Download or read book Annual Report of the American Historical Association written by American Historical Association and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Shropshire

    Book Details:
  • Author : J. A. B. Somerset
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 1994-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780802006486
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book Shropshire written by J. A. B. Somerset and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Records of Early English Drama volumes make available historical transcripts that provide evidence of early English drama, music, ceremonial, dance, and other forms of communal public entertainment in Britain before 1642, together with the necessary interpretive introductions and notes to explicate the materials for the reader. Shropshire, in two volumes, is the eleventh publication in the series. In the introduction Alan Somerset surveys the social and economic history of each major borough and provides a commentary on the major issues raised in the documents. He discusses travelling performers routes, the places they performed, and the remarkable public exhibitions of high-wire artists, camels, bears, and giants. The records for this county are rich and varied, providing new detail about local playing and festivities. From Shrewsbury for example, comes the complete documentation of a unique, semi-circular outdoor amphitheatre. The documents reveal much - from robbery and riots - to the sometimes acrimonious disputes that show the growing Puritan opposition to sports, which attempted to combat an equally stubborn affection for traditional customs. These records are an invaluable addition to the scholarship of early drama, establishing as they do part of the total context of the great drama of Shakespeare, his predecessors, and his contemporaries.

Book You Can Help Your Country  English children   s work during the Second World War

Download or read book You Can Help Your Country English children s work during the Second World War written by Berry Mayall and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2020-11-23 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 2011, You Can Help Your Country: English children’s work during the Second World War reveals the remarkable, hidden history of children as social agents who actively participated in a national effort during a period of crisis. In praise of the book, Hugh Cunningham, celebrated author of The Invention of Childhood, wrote: ‘Think of children and the Second World War, and evacuation comes immediately to mind. Berry Mayall and Virginia Morrow have a different story to tell, one in which all the children of the nation were encouraged to contribute to the war effort. Many responded enthusiastically. Evidence from school magazines and oral testimony shows children digging for victory, working on farms, knitting comforts for the troops, collecting waste for recycling, running households. What lessons, the authors ask, does this wartime participation by children have for our own time? The answers are challenging.’

Book Humanism and Protestantism in Early Modern English Education

Download or read book Humanism and Protestantism in Early Modern English Education written by Ian Green and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-13 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.