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British schools, early-mid 20th Century: Contents List

Scroll down for sections with clickable links to pages on what different types of school were like for children in the early-mid 20th century, told by people who were there: Victorian-style town schools, Grammar Schools and social mobility, suburban primary schools, Copthall County Grammar School, Silver Street School and school photographs.

Victorian Town Schools
early 20th Century

• The school system
  early-mid 20th century
• Victorian school buildings
• School classrooms
• Distressing experiences
• Writing lessons
• Pupil's Christmas letter 1903
• Girls' education
• The wider curriculum
• Education after 14

A Grammar School
mid 20th Century

• Grammar schools and
  social mobility
• A pre-WW2 state-of-the-art grammar school
• Early years and wartime
• Timetables and admin
• School uniforms
• School dinners
• Costs to parents 1950s
• School discipline
• Extra-curricular activities
• Copt Hall manor site/history

Other schools
early-mid 20th century

• Suburban primary schools
• Old rural village schools
• Secondary modern schools
• Comprehensive schools and
  the levelling of society

Schools miscellania

• Free school milk
• The 11 plus exam/the scholarship
• May Day at school
• Discipline and punishment in
  UK schools

People at Copthall School
School Photographs

• Typical school photographs
• 1946
• 1949
• 1952
• 1955
• 1957
• 1961
• Head-mistresses
• Teachers 1950s
• Leavers and teachers 1957

People at Silver Street School
Edmonton
Class Photographs

• 1900-1919
• 1920-1939
• 1940s
• 1950s
• undated c1950s

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