TheVictorians

"We had always been convinced that Victorianism was a myth, engendered by the long life of the sovereign and of her most illustrious subjects. We were constantly being told that the Victorians did this, or the Victorians thought that, while my own difficulty was to find anything on which they agreed: any assumption which was not at some time or other fiercely challenged. 'Victorian History'.


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 Manchester Report.

A survey of elementary education in the thirties revealed to thoughtful contemporaries a profoundly disquieting picture.

School-buildings were rarely good, often indifferent, and sometimes thoroughly bad. The same might be said of the teachers.

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Masters made £117 a week, Dames £16. A curious difficulty occurred in ...