This thorough history of the Wesleyan Methodist educational efforts in Victorian England discusses the influence of Dr. James Harrison Rigg, Principal of Westminster Training College, who dominated his church and who made friendships with senior politicians of the day. The book also looks in depth at the influence of anti-Catholicism, which was rampant in the Methodist church of the era.

Methodism and Education 1849-1902: J.H. Rigg, Romanism, and Wesleyan Schools

History

Smith, John T.

World

Clarendon Press

The Linebacker Raids: The Bombing of North Vietnam, 1972

<p>More bombs fell on North Vietnam from May to December of 1972 than were absorbed by any other country in history. "Linebacker I" dropped 150,000 tons of bombs from May to October, while "Linebacker II" delivered 20,000 tons during eleven days in December. Yet the bombings did not bring the North Vietnamese to their knees. In riveting detail and masterful scope, an expert in air history shows how the bombings were successful by conventional tactical standards, but undermined by the failures of political and military planners, the South Vietnamese government--and an enemy capable of surviving with its infrastructure in a shambles. 240 pages, 55 b/w illus., 6 1/2 x 9 1/2. <br></p>

The Linebacker Raids: The Bombing Of North Vietnam, 1972

Asia

Cassell

A detailed account of the conduct and effectiveness of the US strategic bombing policy in the most controversial aerial campaign of the Vietnam War: The two Linebacker raids. "...gives a month-by-month and sometimes day-by-day narrative of the raids...uses the experiences of pilots and crews to convey the intensity of the raids and the air-to-air combat that occurred between US fighters and North Vietnamese MiGs....Smith rightly realizes that airpower...is only one tool needed to solve political problems."--Military Review

Linebacker Raids: The Bombing of North Vietnam, 1972

SMITH, JOHN

Rolling Thunder

ROLLING THUNDER

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

RANDOM HOUSE UK

Between May and October 1972, more than 150,000 tons of bombs were dropped by US bombers on North Vietnam. The controversial Linebacker raids were an attempt to force the North Vietnamese to the conference table, in the wake of the accelerating withdrawal of the US ground forces from the South Vietnamese battlefield. It was the last major aerial campaign of the war, deeply controversial and in the end ineffective. This analytical account examines the bombing missions and provides an overview of the US strategic bombing during the Vietnam war.

Linebacker Raids: The Bombing of North Vietnam 1972

Military

Castle

The history of Lady Lumley's School and Foundation

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Lady Lumley's Foundation

Key Questions in Education: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

The media is full of reference to failing schools, troublesome pupils, underperforming boys, disappearing childhood and a teaching profession in crisis as more and more teachers contemplate abandoning their careers. Key Questions in Education looks at the current and historical debates of each of these issues, examining how a multitude of stakeholders have viewed, and still view, childhood and schooling. In highlighting how these same or similar issues have persistently been debated throughout time, John T. Smith shows something of their complexity and the need to break apart these key enduring questions in education.Each chapter covers a key question such as: How far should the state interfere in education? Should schools feed their pupils? and Why do children misbehave? Analysing each key question, chapters discuss how such issues were viewed or defined in the past, what solutions and outcomes were envisaged and compare and contrast how this relates to where we are now. Clear links are made throughout between historical sources and current ideology, policy, practice and research. In opening up these debates through case studies and vignettes, students are encouraged to reflect on how these contentious issues might be resolved and how this affects them as future educators.

Bloomsbury Academic

Victorian Class Conflict?: Schoolteaching & the Parson, Priest & Minister, 1837-1902

Americas

Liverpool University Press

Villages and towns in the Victorian era saw a great expansion in educational provision and witnessed the rise of the elementary teaching profession, often provided and supported by local clergymen. This book investigates the social and economic relationships of such clergymen and teachers who worked both cooperatively and in competition with one another. The book then discusses how the inevitable result was a complex of movements in society that led to increasing clashes in villages. The clergy sought to preserve its hold on its status and power, while teachers attempted to secure their new role in society. The research presented is based on previously unused, original sources: church documents, HMI reports, newspapers, journals, and private papers.

The Russian civil war was one of the major events of the last century, leading to the establishment of the Soviet Union. After the First World War the British Government, with the full backing of Secretary of State for War and Air Winston Churchill, sent British forces to help the White Russian armies end the Bolshevik Revolution. In 1918-1920 the RAF sent 221, 266 and 47 Squadron to fight alongside General Denikin in South Russia. The RAF launched attacks on Red Army troops, ships and aircraft, and dropped bombs on Grozney, Astrokhan and Tsaritsin (Stalingrad), which was captured by British tanks twenty-three years before Hitler's army was destroyed there. Many of the RAF men were experienced and battle-hardened pilots, having fought on the Western Front against the German Air Force; the Red Air Force soon learned the quality of their opponents. With the overall collapse of the White Forces in South Russia, the British were forced to make an honourable withdrawal in 1920. The contribution made by the RAF aircrews to the White Russian cause was great, and out of all proportion to their numbers. Research shows that this is the first book focusing on the 1918-1920 RAF campaign in South Russia ever to be published.

Gone to Russia to Fight: The RAF in South Russia 1918-1920

Europe

Amberley Publishing

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