1st Edition

The Rise of the English Prep School

By Donald Leinster-Mackay Copyright 1984
416 Pages
by Routledge

416 Pages
by Routledge

416 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1984, The Rise of the English Prep School was written to provide the first general history of the English Preparatory School. The book examines how two types of English schools with largely different beginnings, one based on private enterprise and one primarily (but by no means exclusively) on philanthropy, came to be complementary parts of the ‘English Public School... Read more
Part 1: Emergence; Part 2: Giving Early Satisfaction; Part 3: Heyday; Part 4: Coming to Terms with Contemporaneity; Bibliography, Appendices; Index

Biography

Donald Leinster-Mackay