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Wright, Susannah – History of Education, 2012
Researchers have identified a civilising mission in elementary schools in the decades around the turn of the twentieth century, particularly in poor urban areas. School log books from the 14 schools in Birmingham and Leicester, supplemented by other primary and secondary sources, are examined for insights into how headteachers perceived, and acted…
Descriptors: Evidence, Economically Disadvantaged, Urban Areas, Principals
Wright, Susannah – History of Education, 2009
The "Floodgate Street area" was a notorious slum district in the city of Birmingham in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This article presents a case study, drawing on the rich archival sources available for this area, to examine the language that local authority and voluntary workers used to describe the local area, and…
Descriptors: Slum Schools, Historiography, Poverty, Case Studies