The making of the education system, 1851–81

Foreword (v)
Contents (vii)
Preface (ix)
Abbreviations (x)
1. Education in the year of the Great Exhibition (1)
	The reaction to the Great Exhibition (2)
	The question of national efficiency (3)
	Social and demographic changes (5)
	The problem of the city (7)
	Government growth and education (8)
	The crisis in the voluntary system (10)
	The Census of 1851 (11)
2. The campaign for national education in the 1850s (13)
	W. J. Fox's bill (14)
	Education and the Free Trade faction (15)
	Cobden and the American Common School System (17)
	The National Conference of the National Public School Association (19)
	The Manchester and Salford Committee on Education (21)
	The Select Committee on Manchester and Salford Education (22)
	The cemetery for defunct Education Bills (23)
	Education and mid-nineteenth-century politics (25)
3. The education of a nation (28)
	The reform of the older universities (29)
	Public school reform (31)
	The reform of middle-class education (33)
	The Taunton Commission's findings (36)
	The implementation of the report (38)
	The Newcastle Commission (39)
	The Commission's findings (40)
	The Commission's recommendations (42)
	The Revised Code (43)
4. The development of a consensus on education (46)
	The Education Aid Societies (47)
	The Liberals and the labour movement (48)
	The educational implications of the Second Reform Act (49)
	Industry, economic survival and education (51)
	The political transformation of Europe and America (54)
5. The making of the Elementary Education Act (56)
	The National Education League (57)
	The National Education Union (60)
	Robert Lowe's scheme (61)
	Forster's memorandum (61)
	The progress of the bill (64)
	The amended bill (65)
6. Compulsory education (68)
	The aftermath of the Education Act (68)
	The Victoria Act, 1872 (70)
	An electoral system in microcosm (71)
	The school boards (72)
	The demand for compulsory attendance (74)
	The Conservatives and the voluntary schools (75)
	The failure of the Agricultural Children's Act (77)
	Lord Sandon's Act, 1876 (78)
	The Mundella Act, 1880 (79)
Suggestions for further reading (83)
Bibliography (84)
	Official reports, and manuscript sources (84)
	Books, pamphlets and journals (84)