Elementary Education Act Implementation in Rural Gloucestershire Documented Through Kemble School Archive, 1871–1904
Kemble Parochial School. Record Book, 1871–1904, constitutes a sustained documentary record of rural English education during the formative decades following the Elementary Education Act of 1870, commonly known as the Forster Act. Established in direct response to this legislation, which mandated compulsory elementary education for children aged five to thirteen.....
