Cheltenham College Register 1841-1889

510 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Cheltenham College Register 1841-1889 opens a window onto the school and the wider world its pupils entered. Names, places, dates, enduring traces. The register gathers alumni lists and historical student records that together illuminate nineteenth-century education and the foundations of Cheltenham College history. As a British school register for a major Gloucestershire institution, it charts patterns of social mobility and the everyday networks of a leading public school during the age commonly studied as Victorian England. Covering the college's formative decades, it provides direct evidence of pupils who went on to shape professions, local institutions and public life. For researchers it is a straightforward tool for verifying identities and timelines; for readers it is an evocative archive of youth, aspiration and service.Republished by Alpha Editions in a careful modern edition, this volume preserves the spirit of the original while making it effortless to enjoy today - a heritage title prepared for readers and collectors alike.Scholars will find a primary Victorian alumni directory; family historians and anyone using a genealogy research book see immediate use in the register's structured entries and cross-reference value. Students of British educational history and those studying British public schools and Gloucestershire history will recognise its documentary worth, offering baseline data that supports wider narratives about class, empire and regional change. Casual readers encounter human detail: names that suggest careers, schools and connections, while collectors of classic literature and those assembling an academic reference collection gain a sturdy, authentic piece of period documentation. Its entries underwrite biographies and local studies, and they provide a counterpoint to narrative histories by showing the administrative and personal details that matter to genealogists and social historians alike. Whether consulted for a quick fact or mined for longer research, the register rewards both first-time browsing and sustained study.

• Themen: Ratgeber Lebenshilfe, Persönlichkeitsentwicklung und praktische Tipps
• ISBN: 9789354300721
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 02.12.2020
• Größe: 280 x 216 mm
• Verlag: Alpha Editions
• Herausgegeben von: Andrew Alexander Hunter