Education, Economic Change and Society in England, 1780-1870

Part 1 Literacy and mass elementary education: i before 1830 - conflicting trends; ii 1830-1870 - the drive to mass literacy. Part 2 Was there a technical education?: the 18th-century scientific culture; the mechanics institutes; South Kensington and after. Part 3 A "middle class" education: the private schools, grammar schools and social change; the rise of the public schools. Part 4 The universities: Oxford, Cambridge and liberal education; provincial reflections; a radical alternative. Part 5 Aspirations and ideologies: political radicals; feminism and the education of women.