Old Perseans and the Great War: a study in the alumni of a minor public school |
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| Authors: | Hugh Pattenden |
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| Institution: | Department of History and Politics, King Edward VI Grammar School, Chelmsford, UK |
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| Abstract: | This article will argue that the current historiography considers the ‘public school experience’ of the First World War too narrowly, and will emphasise that boys from a wide range of establishments experienced the war in a similar fashion to those at elite public schools. It will do this through a case study of the alumni of the Perse Grammar School, Cambridge. By approaching the experience of Perseans in a thematic fashion it will shed new light on how the alumni of schools just below and developing towards full public-school status were affected by the war, an area hitherto not fully explored. |
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| Keywords: | Public school First World War Cambridge education public schoolboys |
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