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Magdalen College School Laurence Brockliss

Magdalen College School By Laurence Brockliss

Magdalen College School by Laurence Brockliss

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Magdalen College School by Laurence Brockliss

Founded in the grounds of Magdalen College 500 years ago, Magdalen College School has been educating centuries of students. Originally intended to offer free tuition in grammar, it has attracted students from all walks of life and from all around the UK during its history. From a period of initial success, the fortunes of the school have waxed and waned over the centuries until modern times, where it has become one of the premier independent schools in the country. With former pupils including lord chancellors, film directors, Nobel Prize-winning scientists and noted composers, Magdalen College School has a rich and engaging history, which this book brings to life with colour illustrations and photographs.

Magdalen College School Reviews

Laurence Brockliss has been a Fellow and Tutor at Magdelen College School since 1984. His insider knowledge of the environment of the school shines through in this history and it is lavishly illustrated with new and interesting images o the school and groups of pupils through the ages. -- Sue Honore * Oxfordshire Family History Society Journal *
This history has been well captured in an efficient and readable way. Pictures of the different designs and key personalities abound, many of them full page. The main readership is likely to be those with an interest in Oxford or directly in the school itself but in many ways this would be a pity as a history of over 530 years provides a good illustration of how education was established in late medieval times and the challenges it faced through different periods subsequently. The book shows how a small publication can convey in an erudite but interesting way (there are plenty of references) the changing face of education. -- Tim Lomas, Chair of the British Association for Local History * The Local Historian *

About Laurence Brockliss

Professor L. W. B. Brockliss has been a Fellow and Tutor in Modern History at Magdalen since 1984. He is the author inter alia of French Higher Education in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries (Oxford, 1987) and The University of Oxford: A History (2016).

Table of Contents

Introduction / The Grammar School and the New Learning 14801688 / The Quiet Years 16881854 / Loosening the Umbilical Cord 18541928 / Period of Uncertainty 192868 / Towards the present 19682008 / Endnotes / Index

Additional information

GOR009766981
9781784421519
1784421510
Magdalen College School by Laurence Brockliss
Laurence Brockliss
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
2016-07-28
96
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Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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