Author: ALLSOBROOK David Ian:
Title: Schools for the Shires - the Reform of Middle-Class Education in Mid-Victorian England.
Description: Manchester. M.U.P. 1986. lst edn. Hardback. 302 pages. Fine in brown boards with gilt lettering to spine, in a fine d.w. Ex shop stock. Unread book. This book contends that the most concerted local initiatives in the reform of secondary education in the 19th century were made in the rural shires, the traditional springs of the power of the landed interest, rather than in the commercially properous urban centres. ISBN: 0-7190-1972-9. (643)

Keywords: Social history. Education.