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What makes a ‘public school’ public?
30 December 20205 January 2023

What makes a ‘public school’ public?

Articles by Harley Richardson0 comments

During 2020 I’ve been researching and writing a couple of chapters for a forthcoming Routledge book on the history of education. My contributions look at the development of liberal education from Ancient Greece to the Industrial Revolution. I’m now in the final stages of editing, cutting the chapters down to fit the allotted word count. Here’s one section that got […]

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