Sensing the realities of English middle-class education: James Bryce and the schools inquiry commission, 1865-1868

History of Education

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 599-613

  McCulloch, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Architecture; Biography; Educational reform; Politics; Secondary education

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052304929     PISSN: 0046760X     EISSN: 14645130     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/0046760X.2011.563755     Document Type: Article

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36. Report of the Royal Commission on Secondary Education (Bryce Report), with minutes of evidence (London: HMSO, 1895).
37. Report of the Schools Inquiry Commission (Taunton Report), with minutes of evidence (London: HMSO, 1868).
38. Seaman, op. cit., 55.
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40. See Peter Gordon and John White, Philosophers as Educational Reformers: The Influence of Idealism on British Educational Thought and Practice (London: RKP, 1979)
41. Gary McCulloch, Philosophers and Kings: Education for Leadership in Modern England (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991).
42. Seaman, 56.
43. Report of the Commissioners appointed to inquire into the state of popular education in England (Newcastle report) (London: HMSO, 1861).
44. Report of Her Majesty's Commissioners appointed to inquire into the revenues and management of certain colleges and schools, and the studies pursued and instruction given in them (Clarendon report) (London: HMSO, 1864).
45. See also for example Gary McCulloch, 'Education and the Middle Classes: The Case of the English Grammar Schools, 1868-1944', History of Education 35, no. 6 (2006): 689-704.
46. Gary McCulloch, Cyril Norwood and the Ideal of Secondary Education (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007).
47. See also David Allsobrook, Schools for the Shires: The Reform of Middle-Class Education in Mid-Victorian England (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986).
48. H.A.L. Fisher, James Bryce (Viscount Bryce of Dechmont, O.M.) (New York: Macmillan, 1927), 104.
49. Ibid., 105.
50. Ibid, Ch. 7, entitled 'Intelligent Observation 1864-68', 119-29.
51. James Bryce to Katherine Bryce, 19 August 1865 (Bryce papers, Bodleian Library Oxford, Ms. 428).
52. James Bryce to Katherine Bryce, 19 August 1865 (Bryce papers, Ms. 428).
53. James Bryce to Katherine Bryce, 23 May [1866?] (Bryce papers, Ms. 428).
54. James Bryce to Katherine Bryce, 19 June [1867] (Bryce papers, Ms. 428).
55. James Bryce to Katherine Bryce, 19 August 1865 (Bryce papers, Ms. 428).
56. Emily Davies to James Bryce, 24 October 1865 (Bryce papers, Ms 159).
57. James Bryce to Katherine Bryce, 23 May [1866?] (Bryce papers, Ms. 428).
58. Report by Mr J. Bryce on the schools of the County Palatine of Lancaster, Taunton Report, volume 9, 425.
59. Ibid., 429.
60. Ibid., 428.
61. Ibid., 490.
62. Ibid., 491.
63. Ibid., 492-93.
64. Ibid., 493.
65. Ibid., 494.
66. Bryce's report on Burnley Free Grammar School, in Taunton Report, volume 17, 201.
67. Bryce's report on Middleton Grammar School, in Taunton Report, volume 17, 337.
68. Bryce's report on Bispham Free Grammar School, in Taunton Report, volume 17, 167.
69. Bryce's general report, in Taunton Report, volume 9, 692.
70. Bryce's report on Blackburn Free Grammar School, in Taunton Report, volume 17, 170.
71. Bryce's report on Oldham Grammar School, in Taunton Report, volume 17, 349.
72. Ibid., 350.
73. Bryce's general report, in Taunton Report, volume 9, 690.
74. Ibid., 697.