In the mid-fifties returning exiles were greeted by a novel sight. The ...
In the mid-fifties returning exiles were greeted by a novel sight.
The black wreath over London was thinning; the Thames was fringed
with smokeless chimneys.
The Home Office had begun to harry offenders under the Smoke Nuisance (Metropolis) Act Of 1853. But the great development of municipal administration belongs to the next generation.The advance of education was much more rapid.
In fact, by 1846 it had already passed out of its first phase of mass production by monitors and private initiative into the phase of trained teachers and public control. Under the monitorial system, the more forward children imparted the elements to the juniors in groups.
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Six years later the distribution was entrusted to a Committee of Council, ...
Six years later the distribution was entrusted to a Committee of Council, nominally: effectively, to their Secretary, Kay-Shuttleworth of the Manch
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