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"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'.


The example was decisive. Voluntary training colleges sprang up in quick succession, ...

The example was decisive.

Voluntary training colleges sprang up in quick succession, and the foundations of a teaching profession were laid. The system was consolidated by the Minute of 1846-apprenticeship to a master, a course in a Training College, the Certificate, additional pay for the Trained Teacher, and the unkept promise of a pension at the end.

Charley Hexam-surely the most detestable boy on record-was apprenticed to Bradley Headstone.

Sue Bridehead was a Queen's scholar at Salisbury Training College when she made her disastrous expedition to Wardour with Jude. They are products, perhaps unusual products, of the Minute of 1886. But the new grant system which the Minute established -£11 from the Treasury, in augmentation of salaries, for every £12 raised locally-brought up the whole issue of State intervention or State abstention.

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