Websites
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Friends Reunited
www.friendsreunited.co.uk
Catch up with some of your old classmates and find out what became of them with this popular online resource.
Education 1750-1950
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/education.htm
Educational online resource discussing the history of education in Britain since the 18th century: educationalists, politicians and education, educational developments, schools, further education, parliamentary legislation.
British and Foreign School Society
www.bfss.org.uk
Throughout the 19th century, the BFSS set up 'British Schools' and teacher training institutions on non-sectarian principles. This site gives a short history of the society and tells what it is doing now. It also lists all the archives it holds.
How We Were Taught
http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/snapshots/snapshot15/snapshot15.htm
School Dinners
http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/snapshots/snapshot29/snapshot29.htm
'Snapshot' pages for children on the National Archives/Public Record Office website, which tell how children were taught in the 19th and early 20th century and why school dinners were introduced in Britain in 1906.
Department for Children, Schools and Families
www.dfes.gov.uk
This government site has all the up-to-date information about the UK education system. Here you can find links, features and information about all the current issues and debates in education.
Guide to Grammar and Writing
http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/
For those who missed out on grammar lessons at school, here's a handy – albeit American – guide to grammar and writing.
Books
Growing Up in the Fifties by Rebecca Hunter (Hodder Wayland, 2002)
A children's book that paints a picture of what it was like growing up in the 1950s through interviews with four people from different walks of life - rich, poor, urban and country dwellers.
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The 1950s Scrapbook by Robert Opie (New Cavendish Books, 1998)
A tour of the 1950s, with more than 1,000 photographs of products from the decade.
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The Fifties and Sixties: A lifestyle revolution by Steve Humphries and Miriam Akhtar (Boxtree, 2002)
Illustrated book that provides an insight into an era that changed people's life patterns irrevocably.
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Summerhill School: A new view of childhood by A S Neill (St Martin's Press, 1995). US edition only.
First published in the 1960s, this is the story of the 'free' school in Suffolk, written by the most radical of Britain's progressive educationalists.
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Schools that Learn: A fieldbook for teachers, administrators, parents and everyone who cares about education by Peter Senge, Nelda H Cambron-McCabe, Timothy Lucas, Bryan Smith, Janis Dutton and Art Kleiner (Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2000)
This book focuses on the problems of the modern educational system and how to solve them. It brings together practices that are being used in the real world as schools attempt to learn, grow and reinvent themselves using learning organisation principles. It features numerous case studies from prominent educators.
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A History of Western Education (volume 3) by James Bowen (Routledge, 1981)
Originally published by Methuen in 1972, this series traces the history of education from the ancient world to modern times in three volumes. Education in the 20th century is discussed in volume 3.
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Education since 1700 by Robert Hume (Heinemann Educational, 1989)
A brief illustrated history for young people.
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Into the Past - At School in the 1950s by S Purkiss and B Merson (Longman, 1983)
Part of a series of books, all available in one package, discussing life, society and education in the past century.
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Fifty Modern Thinkers on Education: From Piaget to the present day, edited by Joy Palmer and David Edward Cooper (Routledge, 2001)
Looks at the work of 50 of the 20th century's most significant contributors to the debate on education.
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It's About Learning (and It's About Time) by Louise Stoll, Dean Fink and Lorna Earl (Routledge Falmer, 2002)
Discusses the role of schools in depth, arguing that their primary focus should be - and always has been - learning.
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