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‘Get a blue and you will see your money back again’: staffing and marketing the English prep school, 1890–1912
Benson, John
Benson, John
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2014-05-07
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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.
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History of Education, vol. 43, No. 3, 2014, pp. 355-367
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0046-760X
1464-5130
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