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Harrow School rose from being one of scores of local grammar schools founded in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to become the second most famous school in the English-speaking world. Still shorthand for social exclusivity, its development supplies insights into British educational, cultural, and political history, as well as providing evidence for the study of public schools in general, one of Britain's most idiosyncratic yet successful social inventions. Avoiding polemic or apologia, this new history of Harrow, the first for over half a century, and the first to be based on unfettered access to the school and governors' archives, investigates the school's governors, masters, pupils,...
This title provides an easily accessible chronological history of the world famous Harrow School. It charts the school's development from it's beginnings in 1572 through the reign of the 'drunken and negligent' James Cox (1713-46), the decline to 69 pupils at the end of Christopher Wordsworth's time (1836-45) to the present day.
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