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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Ackworth School Catalogue: Being A List Of All The Boys And Girls Educated At That Institution, From Its Commencement In 1779, To The Present Period

Ackworth School Catalogue: Being A List Of All The Boys And Girls Educated At That Institution, From Its Commencement In 1779, To The Present Period

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ISBN10: 9354508502
ISBN13: 9789354508509
Publisher: Alpha Edition
Published: Apr 6 2021
Pages: 122
Weight: 0.42
Height: 0.29 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Step into the classrooms of Ackworth. A roll-call from Georgian England, preserved in print. Names carry lives across time. Ackworth School Catalogue gathers the boys and girls educated at this Yorkshire Quaker school from its founding in 1779 through the period of compilation. Part school alumni directory, part historical student register, it is an educational institution catalogue built from student enrolment lists: a plain, exact record that lets you trace families, friendships, and migration with unusual clarity. You can browse by surname, spot classmates, and place a young name in the right decade. These student enrollment lists help anchor dates when other papers have gone missing. Ideal for researchers at home too. For genealogy and family records, it works as a family history reference you can actually cite; for local history researchers, it opens a window on 18th century Yorkshire and the wider network of British Quaker records. Read it for the human texture of a community that valued learning, discipline, and conscience, and for the sober evidence it leaves behind. As a document of quaker boarding school history, the catalogue stands among the most practical English school archives, linking private lives to the public story of education in Georgian era England. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, it is restored for today's and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector's item and a cultural treasure for readers who love primary sources, and for classic-literature collectors building a library of British social history.

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