Author: Eton CollegePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Eton School Days
Author: Eton CollegeSchool-days of eminent men
Author: John TimbsOne of Them
Author: Musa OkwongaPublisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1783529687
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 163
Book Description
Musa Okwonga – a young Black man who grew up in a predominantly working-class town – was not your typical Eton College student. The experience moulded him, challenged him... but also made him wonder why a place that was so good for him also seems to contribute to the harm being done to the UK. The more he searched, the more evident the connection became between one of Britain’s most prestigious institutions and the genesis of Brexit, and between his home town in the suburbs of Greater London and the rise of the far right. Woven throughout this deeply personal and unflinching memoir of Musa’s five years at Eton in the 1990s is a present-day narrative which engages with much wider questions about pressing social and political issues: privilege, the distribution of wealth, the rise of the far right in the UK, systemic racism, the ‘boys’ club’ of government and the power of the few to control the fate of the many. One of Them is both an intimate account and a timely exploration of race and class in modern Britain.
School-days of Eminent Men. I. Sketches of the progress of education in England, from the reign of King Alfred to that of Queen Victoria. II. Early lives of celebrated British authors, philosophers, etc
Author: John TIMBSSchool-days of eminent men. Sketches of the progress of education in England, from the reign of King Alfred to that of Queen Victoria
Author: John TimbsPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5878280965
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Butler Burke at Eton
Author: Bracebridge HemyngDave Cameron's Schooldays
Author: Bill ColesPublisher: Legend Press
ISBN: 1907756175
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
A cracking read... Perfectly paced and brilliantly written, Coles draws you in, leaving a childish smile on your face. News of the World This is a charming and uplifting book. Piers MorganThis is the extraordinary first-hand account of Tory leader David Cameron's Eton Schooldays. In this cracking yarn, which also happens to be entirely fictional, veteran journalist Bill Coles reveals how Cameron's first year at Eton College helped turn him into one of the wiliest political operators of his age. These spoof memoirs include revelatory details of Cameron's early life as a porn-dealer and paparazzo. The novel may perhaps contain valuable insights into the mind of the man who is on the threshold of becoming the first Old Etonian Prime Minister in more than four decades.
Schooldays in Imperial Japan
Author: Donald T. RodenPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520376609
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.
An Eton Bibliography
Author: Lewis Harcourt Harcourt (1st viscount)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
Public School Literature, Civic Education and the Politics of Male Adolescence
Author: Jenny HoltPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351907662
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 297
Book Description
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, British society gradually began to see 'adolescence' as a distinct social entity worthy of concentrated study and debate. Jenny Holt argues that the social construction of the public schoolboy, a figure made ubiquitous by a huge body of fictional, biographical, and journalistic work, had a disproportionate role to play in the development of social perceptions of adolescence and in forming ideas of how young people should be educated to become citizens in an age of increasing democracy. With attention to an admirably wide range of popular books as well as examples from the periodical press, Jenny Holt begins with a discussion of the ideas of late-eighteenth-century social radicals, and ends with the First World War, when the more 'serious' public school literature, which sought to involve juvenile readers in complex social and political issues, declined suddenly in popularity. Along the way, Jenny Holt considers the influence of Victorian Evangelical thought, Social Darwinism, and the early-twentieth-century National Efficiency movement on concepts of adolescence. Whether it is shedding new light on well-known texts by Thomas Hughes and Rudyard Kipling, providing a fascinating discussion of works written by boys themselves, or supplying historical context for the development of the concept of adolescence, this book will engage not only scholars of childhood and children's literature but Victorianists and those interested in the history of educational practice.