‘Get a blue and you will see your money back again’: staffing and marketing the English prep school, 1890–1912
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This article explores the ways in which English prep schools were staffed and marketed in the years before the First World War. Its aim more specifically is to employ a biographical approach to consider the emphasis that the schools placed upon sport, and in particular the extent to which they recruited Oxford and Cambridge Blues as teachers (and/or as coaches). It will be suggested that while prep schools certainly placed enormous emphasis upon sport, few of them employed Blues; and that even the small number which did, generally did so only on a part-time, seasonal or casual basis – and made virtually no mention of them in their marketing.Citation
History of Education, vol. 43, No. 3, 2014, pp. 355-367Publisher
Cambridge University PressJournal
History of EducationAdditional Links
http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0046760X.2014.905640Type
Journal articleLanguage
enISSN
0046-760X1464-5130
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Faculty of Social Sciencesae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1080/0046760X.2014.905640
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