First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This study explains Fleet Road Board School's success using contemporary sources, and newspapers and the oral evidence of ex-pupils.

Hitherto only a small proportion of the research on private education has been on the schooling of girls. Debate on the subject, while often heated, even prejudiced, proceeds largely in ignorance of the historical development of private schooling, the currently changing nature of private schooling, and the wide diversity of provision of private schooling. This collection of previously unpublished essays presents important new research on the history and development of girls' private schools, their present role and the experience of privately educated girls. Taken together, the findings are...

Throughout history, women from all over the world have come together for diverse and often contradictory purposes in informal networks, or as participants in men's organizations, or even more or less covertly. However, in Britain and Ireland at least, it is only in the past two centuries that they have in significant numbers banded together openly, formally, separately and autonomously. They have done so for a variety of reasons: to further a political cause, to improve social relations, to improve their understanding of the world or to acquire particular skills, to share a leisure or...

This book examines the questions and perennial themes that run through British overseas policy since 1945, drawing on new research by leading historians and scholars in the field.

This volume deals with the great changes which have taken place in the practice of the history of education in present years. It brings together a number of important articles on the subject which are not easily available to the ordinary reader.

First Published in 1978. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

This is a tribute from historian and educationists to the work and influence of Peter Gordon, Emeritus Professor at the Institute of Education in London. The essays are grouped round the central theme of Professor Gordon's many publications - the educational history of the 19th and 20th centuries - but they also reflect the breadth of his interests and depth of scholarship within that field.

The Values Debate: A Voice from the Pupils presents findings from a survey conducted among 30,000 13-15-year-olds throughout England and Wales, giving particular attention to social, personal and moral issues. The analysis begins with an overview of what teenagers really think. What are their views on sex, family, AIDS and homosexuality? What stand do they take on tobacco, alcohol and drugs? What values do they hold on pollution, poverty and responsibility for the developing world? What value to they place on themselves and on their future lives?