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Books About English ... Chronological Public Schools

1844-1900
A P Stanley : Life and Correspondence of Dr Arnold
(1844 Ward Lock) - 2 vols
Thomas Hughes : Tom Brown's Schooldays
(1857 London)
A G Bradley : A History of Marlborough College
(1893 London) - et al
A F Leach : English Schools at the Reformation
(1896 London)
G R Parkin : Life & Letters of Edward Thring
(of Uppingham) (1898 Macmillan)
Waset Sterry : Annals of Eton College
(1898)
A F Leach : A History of Winchester College
(1899 Duckworth)
A F Leach : History of Bradfield College
(1900 London)

1901-1930
Dom Henry Norbert Birt : Downside
(1902 London)
F D How : Six Great Schoolmasters
(1904 Methuen)
Norman G B James : History of Mill Hill
(1909 London)
Arnold Lunn : The Harrovians
(1913 Methuen)
A F Leach : Schools of Medieval England
(1915 London)
Anon : Sixteen - A Diary of the Teens by A Boy
(1917 London)
Alec Waugh : Public School Life
(1922 Collins)
J H Badley : Bedales
(1923 Methuen)
H G Wells : The Story of a Great Schoolmaster
(Sanderson of Oundle) (1924 Chatto & Windus)
Arthur Conan Doyle : Memoirs and Adventures
(1924 Hodder & Stoughton)
Edmund Blunden : Christ's Hospital
(1928 Christophers)
(Ed) M A Douglas & C R Ash : The Godolphin School 1726-1926 (1928 Longmans)
Bernard Darwin : The English Public School
(1929 Longman, Green)
Arnold Whitridge : Dr Arnold of Rugby
(1929 Cassell)
Dorothy Gardiner : English Girlhood at School
(1929 OUP)

1931-1940
J H Driberg : At Home with Savages
(1932 Routledge)
B M Allen : Sir Robert Morant
(1934 London)
(Ed) Graham Greene : The Old School (1934 London)
Geoffrey Crump : Bedales Since the War
(1936 Chapman & Hall)
E M Jameson : Charterhouse
(1937 Blackie)
J M West : Shrewsbury
(1937 Blackie)
John Rodgers : The Old Public Schools of England
(1938 Batsford)
W R M Leake : Gilkes and Dulwich
(1938 Alleyn Club) - et al
Edward C Mack : Public Schools and British Opinion 1780-1860
(1938 Methuen)
Cyril Connolly : Enemies of Promise
(1938 Deutsch)
T C Worsley : Barbarians and Philistines - Democracy and the Public Schools
(1940 Robert Hale)
John Buchan : Memory Hold the Door
(1940 Hodder & Stoughton)

1941-1950
E C Mack : Public Schools & British Opinion Since 1860
(1941 Columbia UP)
Bruce Marshall : George Brown's Schooldays
(1946 Constable)
E S Turner : Boys will be Boys
(1948 M Joseph)
J d'E Firth : Winchester College
(1949)

1951-1955
A B Gourlay : A History of Sherborne School
(1951 Warren)
Lynda Grier : Achievement in Education
(1952 Constable)
N G Wymer : Dr Arnold of Rugby
(1953 Robert Hale)
A K Clarke : A History of The Cheltenham Ladies' College
(1953 Faber)
W A C Stewart : Quakers and Education
(1953 Epworth Press)
J F C Harrison : A History of the Working Men's College 1854-1954
(1954 RKP)
Dom Hubert Van Zeller : Downside by and Large
(1954 Sheed & Ward)
Alec Waugh : The Loom of Youth
(1955 Bles)
Dorothy E de Zouche : Roedean 1885-1955
(1955 PP for circulation)

1956-1960
W G Walker : A History of Oundle School
(1956 Printed for the Grocer's Co)
Vivian Ogilvie : The English Public School
(1957 Batsford)
Robert Graves : Goodbye to All That
(1957 Cassell)
David Newsome : A History of Wellington College 1859-1959
(1959 Murray)
G F Lamb : The Happiest Days
(1959 Michael Joseph)
Christopher Hollis : Eton
(1960 Hollis & Carter)
John Betjeman : Summoned by Bells
(1960 Murray)
T W Bamford : Thomas Arnold
(1960 Cresset Press)
Anthony Kerr : Schools of Europe
(1960 Bowes)

1961-1965
David Newsome : Godliness and Good Learning
(1961 Murray)
Winston S Churchill : My Early Life
(1961 Brodie)
(Ed) Brian Inglis : John Bull's Schooldays (1961 Hutchinson)
Jeremy Pitt : Square Peg
(1961 Centaur Press)
Ralph Furse : Acuparius - Recollections of a Recruiting Officer
(1962 OUP)
Alex Waugh : The Early Years
(1962 Cassell)
John C Dancy : The Public Schools and the Future
(1963 Faber)
R Heussler : Yesterday's Rulers - The Making of the British Colonial Service
(1963 OUP)
Evelyn Waugh : A Little Learning
(1964 Chapman & Hall)
Christopher Dilke : Dr Moberly's Mint-Mark - a Study of Winchester College
(1965 Heinemann)
Noel Annan : Roxburgh of Stowe
(1965 Longmans)
John Carleton : Westminster School
(1965 Hart-Davis)
Josephine Kamm : Hope Deferred - Girls' Education in English History
(1965 Methuen)
J H Simpson : Schoolmaster's Harvest
(1965 Faber)

1966-1970
Graham Kalton : The Public Schools - a Factual Survey
(1966 Longman, Green)
Randolph S Churchill : Winston S Churchill - Vol 1 Youth
(1966 Heinemann)
T F Coade : The Burning Bow
(1966 Allen & Unwin)
Royston Lambert : The State and Boarding Education
(1966 Methuen)
T W Bamford : The Rise of the Public School
(1967 Nelson)
Peter Brown : Augustine of Hippo
(1967 Faber)
Kathleen Ollerenshaw : The Girls' Schools
(1967 London)
T C Worsley : Flannelled Fool - A Slice of Life in the Thirties
(1967 Alan Ross)
Felicia Lamb & Helen Pickthorn : Locked-Up daughters
(1968 H & S)
Royston Lambert, John Hipkin & Susan Stagg : New Wine in Old Bottles ? - Studies in
Integration within the Public Schools
(1968 Bell)
Michael Campbell : Lord Dismiss Us
(1968 Heinemann)
E E Evans-Pritchard : The Nuer
(1968 OUP)
M C Morgan : Cheltenham College
(1968 The Cheltenham Society)
T E B Howarth : Culture, Anarchy and the Public Schools
(1969 Cassell)
Brian Heeney : Mission to the Middle Classes - The Woodward Schools 1848-1891
(1969 Church Historical Society with Univ of Alberta Press)
Alicia C Percival : The Origins of the Headmasters' Conference
(1969 Murray)
John Wakeford : The Cloistered Elite - a Sociological Analysis of the English Public School
(1969 Macmillan)
George Macdonald Fraser : Flashman
(1969 Barrie & Jenkins)
Robert Skidelsky : English Progressive Schools
(1969 Penguin)
H C Barnard : A History of English Education from 1760
(1970 London UP)
Erving Goffman : Aylums
(1970 Penguin)

1971-1980
Betty Askwith : Two Victorian Families
(1971 C & W)
S G Checkland : The Gladstones
(1971 CUP)
Mallory Wober : English Girls' Boarding Schools
(1971 Allen Lane)
Correlli Barnett : The Collapse of British Power
(1972 Eyre Methuen)
Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy : The Rise & Fall of the British Nanny
(1972 Hodder & Stoughton)
Robin Maugham : Escape from the Shadows
(1972 Hodder & Stoughton)
W A C Stewart : Progressives & Radicals in English Education 1750-1970
(1972 Macmillan)
Brian Gardner : The Public Schools
(1973 Hamish Hamilton)
Alicia C Percival : Very Superior Men - some early Public-School Headmasters & their Achievements
(1973 Chas Knight)
Harry Ree : Educator Extraordinary - The Life & Achievement of Henry Morris
(1973 Longman)
(Ed) Brian Simon & Ian Bradley : The Victorian Public School (1975 Gill & Macmillan)
Richard Usborne : Clubland Heroes
(1975 Barrie & Jenkins)
Gillian Freeman : The Schoolgirl Ethic - Life & Work of Angela Brazil
(1976 Allen Lane)
J R de S Honey : Tom Brown's Universe - the development of the Victorian Public School
(1977 Millington)
Jonathan Gathorne-Hardy : The Public School Phenomenon
(1977 Hodder & Stoughton £7.50)
(Ed) George Macdonald Fraser : The World of the Public School (1977 Weidenfeld & N) - essays

After 1981
John Rae : The Public School Revolution - Britain's Independent Schools 1964-79
(1981 Faber)
J A Mangan : Athleticism in Victorian and Edwardian Public Schools
(1981 CUP)
Isabel Quigly : The Heirs of Tom Brown - The English School Story
(1982 C & W £12.50)
John Chandos : Boys Together - English Public Schools 1800-1864
(1984 Yale UP)
(1985 Oxford)

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