Richard Aldrich Institute of Education, University of London

• Introduction; Chapter 1 Time, Place and the Social Space of a Victorian Teaching Family, William E. Marsden; Chapter 2 Changing Attitudes to the Welfare of Elementary Schoolchildren in the 1880s, Pamela Horn; Chapter 3 Authority and Freedom, V. Alan McClelland; Chapter 4 Classics in the Colonies, R.J.W. Selleck; Chapter 5 Personalities and Policy, Roy Lowe; Chapter 6 Educating the Public, Gary McCulloch; Chapter 7 An Essay in Missing Out, P.H.J.H. Gosden; Chapter 8 Education and the Moot, William Taylor; Chapter 9 External Examining in Higher Education, Harold Silver; Chapter 10 Changes in Assessment in England, 1979–94, Denis Lawton;

'A book not to be missed' - History of Education Review'This collection with its emphasis on individuals and their relationship to social context and to wider and political and economic forces...should give rise to an educational discourse which is informed, rational, atheoretical, liberal, evidentially-based, anti-utopian, careful and tentative' - History of Education Society Bulletin'quite remarkable essays' - Paedagogica Historia