Prep School Children

Prep School Children

In a compelling and sometimes shocking account, Vyvyen Brendon dwells not on the adult purposes behind a peculiarly British institution but on the lives of the children.

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Vyvyen Brendon read History at St Anne's College, Oxford. After a career in teaching she retired as Head of History at St Mary's School, Cambridge, to take up full-time research and writing. Her most recent book is Children of the Raj. She keeps in touch with children though her work as trustee of a nursery school and through her three grandsons.

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Introduction 'One of the mysteries of English life'
1. A Little Roughing It - The Early 19th Century
2. The Only Way to Bring up Boys - Victorian Prep Schools
3. Three Stumps One Wicket - Edwardian Heyday
4. Too Young to Gird on the Sword - WW1
5. All the Ghastly Smells of School - Between the Wars
6. A Higher Sense of Sacrifice - WW2
7. How to Be Top - Post War World
8. Boiled Mince and Incense - The Swinging Sixties
9. Stand in Parents - Modern Prep Schools
10. It Never Did Me Any Harm.