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The school that appointed Cyril Norwood to be its headmaster, Bristol Grammar School, was a long-established school with a distinguished history, but it had major problems that required urgent resolution. The present chapter examines the nature of these problems and the contribution made by Norwood to the school’s rapid growth and development during the period of his headmastership from 1906 to 1916. It will explore the expansion and social role of Bristol Grammar School over this time, and also the character of the school’s curriculum. Finally, it will investigate the character of the ideals represented by Bristol Grammar School, in particular through a detailed analysis of the treatise published in 1909 by Norwood and Arthur H. Hope, The Higher Education of Boys in England.
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Details on the history of Bristol Grammar School are drawn from C.P. Hill, The History of Bristol Grammar School (London, Pitman, 1951). Further details on Bristol’s higher grade schools are in Vlaeminke, The English Higher Grade Schools, esp. chapter 3.
Cyril Norwood and A.H. Hope (eds.), The Higher Education of Boys in England (London, John Murray, 1909), p. 341.
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McCulloch, G. (2007). The Higher Education of Boys in England. In: Cyril Norwood and the Ideal of Secondary Education. Secondary Education in a Changing World. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230603523_4
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