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[Wrotham Church School, Kent.] Three manuscript school diaries or log books, one of them relating to the Infant School, covering the period 1872-1885, and the other two, relating to the Junior School, 1863-1939.

Author: 
George Barham (1831-1914), Master, Wrotham National School (Kent) Mixed School; Annie Georgina McCowen et al, school mistresses, Wrotham National Infant School, Kent
Publication details: 
[Wrotham National Junior and Infant Schools, Kent.] 1863-1939.
£850.00

These three log books, covering a period of nearly eighty years, constitute an attractive piece of social history, charting the growth of a rural school from precarious beginnings to a secure state on the eve of the Second World War, and providing a vivid example of the change in the British educational system from the nineteenth to the twentieth century.

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