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1. The Education of the Poor

   The History of the National School 1824-1974

   By Pamela Silver, Harold Silver

   Originally published 1974. Thousands of elementary schools for the children of the poor were founded during the nineteenth century, yet there is scarcely a published history of a single one of them. This volume is precisely such a history and the authors trace its story against the background of...

   To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge
2. The Concept of Popular Education

   By Harold Silver

   Originally published 1965. This reprints the 1977 edition which included a new introduction. From the starting point of "popular" charity education, the book traces the dynamic of ideological and social change from the 1790s to the 1830s in terms of attitudes to education and analyzes the range of...

   Published May 7th 2013 by Routledge
3. Education and the Social Condition (RLE Edu L)

   By Harold Silver

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   This book reviews the educational experience of the 1960s and 1970s and to suggest ways of approaching major contemporary themes such as equality, accountability and standards. The author underlines a nineteenth and twentieth-century sociological tradition in analysing education and covers a range...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
4. English Education and the Radicals (RLE Edu L)

   1780-1850

   By Harold Silver

   Series: Routledge Library Editions: Education

   The radicalism of the period from the 1780s to the mid-nineteenth century represented a harnessing of knowledge in protest against injustices and oppression, a pooling of effort to transform society. In this book the author explores the main strains in working and middle-class radicalism over this...

   Published December 7th 2011 by Routledge
5. A Social History of Education in England

   By John Lawson, Harold Silver

   Originally published in 1973,this book describes the medieval origins of the British education system, and the transformations successive historical events – such as the Reformation, the Civil War and the Industrial Revolution – have wrought on it. It examines the effect on the educational pattern...

   Published May 16th 2007 by Routledge
6. Education as History

   By Harold Silver

   Originally published 1983.This book explores the nature of the social history of education. It examines what aspects of the history of education have been neglected and why. The themes explored include the relationship between education and the emergence of social science, the reputations of...

   Published May 16th 2007 by Routledge
7. Higher Education and Policy-making in Twentieth-century England

   By Harold Silver

   Series: Woburn Education Series

   This book explores the changing patterns of higher education in England in the twentieth century, the types of institutions and the emergence of a 'system' of education. At the same time it traces the relationship between the writer-advocates of higher education and the changing world of higher...

   Published July 14th 2003 by Routledge
8. A Liberal Vocationalism

   By John Brennan, Harold Silver

   Published March 2nd 1988 by Routledge