BELL, BOOK AND SCANDAL: THE STRUGGLE FOR SCHOOL ATTENDANCE IN A SOUTH CAMBRIDGESHIRE VILLAGE 1880–1890Compulsory elementary education for children up to ten years was introduced by an Act of 1880. The difficulties in implementing it in a rural area during the ten years which followed are ...
Chatteris is a market town and civil parish in the Fenland district of Cambridgeshire, England, situated in the Fens between Huntingdon, March and Ely. Chatteris is situated 5 km south of Doddington.Benwick Village Photo: Kep69, Public domain. Benwick is a village and civil parish in the...
31 The concept of the Village College was developed in the 1920s by Henry Morris, who was responsible for education in Cambridgeshire. The intention was to help stem the flow of people leaving rural areas by providing local facilities. See “The Village College Idea”, in: Architectural Review...