Opening Schools and Closing Prisons: Caring for Destitute and Delinquent Children in Scotland 1812-1872 by Andrew G. Ralston

Opening Schools and Closing Prisons: Caring for Destitute and Delinquent Children in Scotland 1812-1872

Routledge Studies in Modern British History

Andrew G. Ralston

194 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction education history medium-paced
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The book covers the period from 1812, when the Tron Riot in Edinburgh dramatically drew attention to the 'lamentable extent of juvenile depravity', up to 1872, when the Education Act (Scotland) inaugurated a system of universal schooling. During t...

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