| Urban Education in the 19th Century: Proceedings of the 1976 Annual Conference of the History of Education Society of Great Britain Subjects: Rural and Urban Life; Agencies and Institutions; Family and Demography; Class and Work; Education; Urban Studies; Urbanisation; Education; Population; Social Groups; The Urban Environment; Sociology of Education; Urban Studies; Urban Cultures; Urban History; Urban Sociology - Urban Studies; Cities & Infrastructure; Working Classes; Urban Education; First published in 1977, Urban Education in the 19th Century is a collection based on the conference papers of the annual 1976 conference for the History of Education Society. The book illustrates a variety of ways of elucidating the connections between education and the city, mainly in nineteenth-century Britain. Essays cover political, geographical, demographic and socio-structural aspects of urbanization. There is an emphasis on comparative studies of urban educational developments and attention is paid to the perceptions of the nineteenth-century city and its problems, especially for child life, as well as to the realities of urban change |