Elementary Education Act News Today

Three Rivers Museum Trust chairman Fabian Hiscock looks back at the origins of schools in the district.

BYLEY residents could well believe they’ve travelled back as time as their ‘proud village school’ turns 150.

The aftermath of a nineteenth-century vaccination mandate.

THE first woman in my T&A series of Bradford’s female game-changers was Fanny Hertz, who came from a prosperous German family that settled in…

In 1870, when the Elementary Education Act paved the way for universal state education in Britain, the population was 27.5 million. Over half of these people lived in industrial towns or cities. Over a quarter of them lived in London. Acts of Parliament had restricted work for children and new technology like the threshing machine had industrialised farming.

BRADFORD has produced powerful academics such as Alan Bullock, expert on Hitler, and Asa Briggs, expert on Victorian cities, who both ended as…

ONE of the great virtues of old newspapers is that they include detailed reports on a variety of community activities.

Historical perspectives on learning at home show that play, toys and storytelling have always been woven into learning

MRS Fanny Hertz is probably not a name that is instantly recognisable, and possibly not commonly discussed in 21st Century Bradford. However, in the 19th Century Fanny was a woman ahead of her time. Born in Hanover, Germany, in 1830, and related to Heinrich Hertz, famous physicist and discoverer of Hertz’ Rays, Fanny would become a leading light in the struggle for women’s education, and as such it is fair to say she can be labelled as a feminist. In the mid 1870s she moved to London ...