History for Their Masters; Opinion in the English History Textbook: 1800-1914

Bath: Adams & Dart [0-239-00068-4] 1970. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 153pp. Notes, bibliography, index. "Of all school subjects, history is perhaps most obviously a vehicle for the opinions of the teacher and the section of society which he represents, giving as it does scope for the expression of a wide variety of political, moral and religious ideas. The English educationalists of the last century seem to have been more concerned than those of today to eliminate from textbooks those attitudes which they considered harmful or subversive, and it is apparent that a conscious and directed effort was made to indoctrinate the young with ideas acceptable to the dominant classes of society". Time Period 1800-1914 & Victorian. (History--England, Education--England, History--England, Ideology, Teachers).