This book examines the education of working-class and middle-class girls between 1800-1914. It argues that an influential middle-class ideology advocated that a

This book is the first publication to devote serious attention to the history of home education from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century. It brin

This book takes a novel approach to the topic, combining biographical approaches and local history, a synthesis of sociological and historical literature, with

A Social History of Educational Studies and Research examines the development of the study of education in the UK in its broader educational, social and politic