Introduction; Chapter 1 Time, Place and the Social Space of a Victorian Teaching Family, William E. Marsden; Chapter 2 Changing Attitudes to the Welfare of Elementary Schoolchildren in the 1880s, Pamela Horn; Chapter 3 Authority and Freedom, V. Alan McClelland; Chapter 4 Classics in the Colonies, R.J.W. Selleck; Chapter 5 Personalities and Policy, Roy Lowe; Chapter 6 Educating the Public, Gary McCulloch; Chapter 7 An Essay in Missing Out, P.H.J.H. Gosden; Chapter 8 Education and the Moot, William Taylor; Chapter 9 External Examining in Higher Education, Harold Silver; Chapter 10 Changes in Assessment in England, 1979–94, Denis Lawton;