1st Edition
Religion and Relationships in Ragged Schools An Intimate History of Educating the Poor, 1844-1870
Introduction 1 ‘The Glory of God for its End’: The Ragged School Movement 2 ‘A Real Specimen of the Street Arab’: Constructing the Ragged Child 3 ‘Having a Lark’: Children and Teachers in the Classroom 4 ‘But I Like the Boy’: Ware and the Compton Place Boys 5 ‘The Only Freind I Have Got’: The Scholar-Teacher Relationship After School; ‘Here Ends this Season’: Conclusions
Biography
Laura M. Mair is a Research Fellow at the School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, UK. She has published on the ragged schools in the Journal of Victorian Culture and Studies in Church History. Mair was a consultant to the V&A Museum of Childhood in connection with the 'On Their Own: Britain’s Child Migrants' exhibition. She is currently an advisor to London’s Ragged School Museum.
