1. Old Perseans and the Great War: a study in the alumni of a minor public school.
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Pattenden, Hugh
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HISTORIOGRAPHY of World War I , *ENDOWED public schools (Great Britain) , *ALUMNAE & alumni , *HISTORY , *HISTORY of education , *HISTORIOGRAPHY - Abstract
This article will argue that the current historiography considers the 'public school experience' of the First World War too narrowly, and will emphasise that boys from a wide range of establishments experienced the war in a similar fashion to those at elite public schools. It will do this through a case study of the alumni of the Perse Grammar School, Cambridge. By approaching the experience of Perseans in a thematic fashion it will shed new light on how the alumni of schools just below and developing towards full public-school status were affected by the war, an area hitherto not fully explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
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