Eighteenth‐century education: discourses and informal agencies

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Notes

¹ There have been a few significant articles, e.g. Michèle Cohen, ‘Language and meaning in a documentary source: girls’ curriculum from the late eighteenth century to the Schools Enquiry commission, 1868’, History of Education 34, no. 1 (January, 2005): 77–93.

² For example the conference at Cambridge University on Education and Gender in September 2005 and various initiatives at Birmingham University.

³ Roy Porter, Enlightenment: Britain and the Creation of the Modern World (London: Penguin Books, 2001), 3.

⁴ For example ibid.; John Brewer, The Pleasures of the Imagination: English Culture in the Eighteenth Century (London: HarperCollins, 1997); Sarah Knott and Barbara Taylor, eds., Women, Gender and the Enlightenment (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

⁵ The New Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1993), I, 785.

⁶ Maxine Berg and Elizabeth Eger, ‘The rise and fall of the luxury debates’, in Luxury in the Eighteenth Century: Debates, Desires and Delectable Goods, ed. Maxine Berg and Elizabeth Eger (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), 7–27.

⁷ Copies of these rules are in Soho House Museum and Birmingham Archives and Heritage, Birmingham, UK.

⁸ Dorinda Outram, The Enlightenment, 2nd ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 77–92; Ruth Watts, Women in Science: A Social and Cultural History (Abingdon: Routledge, 2007), 55–98.

⁹ Arthur MacGregor and A.J. Turner, ‘The Ashmolean Museum’, in The History of the University of Oxford, vol. v., The Eighteenth Century, ed. L.S. Sutherland and L.G. Mitchell (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), 639–58; David Wilson, The British Museum: A History (London: 2002).

¹⁰ Kim Sloan, ed., Enlightenment: Discovering the World in the Eighteenth Century (London: British Museum, 2003).

¹¹ Arthur MacGregor, Curiosity and Enlightenment: Collectors and Collections from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007), 69.

¹² For example Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: a Medical History of Humanity from Antiquity to the Present (London: HarperCollins, 1997), 245–303.

¹³ Maxine Berg, The Age of Manufactures 1700–1820: Industry, Innovation and Work in Britain, 2nd ed.(London and New York: Routledge, 1994); Roderick Flood and Paul Johnson, The Cambridge Economic History of Modern Britain, vol. I, Industrialisation, 1700‐1860 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004).

¹⁴ Porter, Enlightenment, 184–204, 397–475.

¹⁵ Malcolm Dick, ‘Religion and the Origins of Mass Schooling: The English Sunday School, c. 1780–1840’, in The Churches and Education, ed. V.A. McClelland (Leicester: History of Education Society, 1984); Simon, Two Nations, 17–62; E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1968).