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The English Public School: History and Society

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 February 2017

Harry G. Judge
Harry G. Judge*
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University of Oxford
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History of Education Quarterly , Volume 22 , Issue 4 , Winter 1982 , pp. 513 - 525
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Copyright © 1982 by History of Education Society 

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1. Gathorne-Hardy, Jonathan, The Old School Tie: the Phenomenon of the English Public School. Viking Press, New York, 1978. Published in England in 1977 under the title The Public School Phenomenon, Lond. 597–1977. References in later footnotes will be to the American edition. Other references, unless the exception is noted, will be to the first English edition of the work cited.Google Scholar

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