Educating the Respectable: A Study of Fleet Road Board School, Hampstead (The Woburn Education Series)

Under its first headmaster, W.B. Adams, Fleet Road Board School was an outstanding success, described by a contemporary journal as the finest elementary school in Europe.' This study explains the school's success using contemporary sources, and newspapers and the oral evidence of ex-pupils. The late nineteenth century was a germinal period in the development of, on the face of it, three barely connected social and economic phenomena: popular education, urban transport systems, and domestic music. This study explains Fleet Road Board School's success using contemporary sources, and newspapers and the oral evidence of ex-pupils.