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ragged school
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ragged school
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(Social Science / Education) (in Britain, formerly) a free elementary school for poor children
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She covers old schools (Charterhouse, Westminster), new schools (Working Men's Colleges, Ragged Schools, the Polytechnic, Queen's College for Girls), and schools almost no one has written about (the Jewish Free School and the Freemasons' schools).
Liza Picard: Victorian London: The Tale of a City 1840-1870 by Mullen, Alexandra / New Criterion
In 1851, industrial schools were formed and were combined with ragged schools in 1859.
When Women Meet by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
Ragged schools, which opened in Coventry in 1847, originally gave the poorest children some form of education.
DAVID McGRORY 'S COLUMN time tunnel: a journey into our rich ... by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
 
 
 
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