lnside a Victorian school | Historian Ruth Goodman on lessons and discipline

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Historian Ruth Goodman explores the Ragged school movement, the social mobility that schooling offered, and how the classroom was a different experience depending on whether you were a boy or a girl.

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00:36 Who could read and write?
04:29 How were Ragged Schools run?
06:08 Was school compulsory?
07:01 How were classes taught?
09:35 Did boys and girls learn together?
10:22 What about discipline?
11:07 How did literacy change lives?

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