Manchester and the Movement for National Elementary Education, 1800-1870 |
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annually APPENDIX appointed Apprentice attendance Bible Borough boys C.Bs child classes Cobden cotton county board day schools denominations Dissenters educa Education Aid Society Education Bill Committee Edward Baines Elementary Education Bill employed Entwistle Established Church existing schools Factory favour girls Government Grammar School House of Commons John Lancashire Public School League Lord M'Kerrow Manc Manchester and Salford Manchester Education Bill Manchester Grammar School Manchester Guardian manufacturing districts Master or Mistress meeting ment mills Milner-Gibson National Education National Public School number of children number of scholars parents parish Parliament petition poor population present principles proposed Public School Association ratepayers rates reading religion religious instruction Report Richard Cobden Richson Robert Owen Salford Committee Salford Education Bill scheme secular Sir Robert Peel Stowell Sunday schools taught teachers teaching tion Total Town township Unitarian voluntary W. E. Forster
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Page 122 - ... factories, in proposing an application for Parliamentary aid (if other methods appear not likely to effect the purpose) to establish a general system of laws for the...
Page 41 - If God spare my life, ere many years I will cause a boy that driveth the plough shall know more of the Scripture than thou dost.
Page 121 - It appears that the children and others who work in the large cotton factories, are peculiarly disposed to be affected by the contagion of fever, and that when such infection is received, it is rapidly propagated, not only amongst those who are crowded together in the same apartments, but in the families and neighbourhoods to which they belong.
Page 18 - Having other pursuits, it was not often in my power to visit the factories, but whenever such visits were made, I was struck with the uniform appearance of bad health, and, in many cases, stinted growth of the children...
Page 23 - An Act for the Preservation of the Health and Morals of Apprentices and others employed in Cotton and other Mills and Cotton and other Factories...
Page 122 - The untimely labour of the night, and the protracted labour of the day, with respect to children, not only tends to diminish future expectations as to the general sum of life and industry, by impairing the strength and destroying the vital stamina of the rising generation, but it too often gives encouragement to idleness, extravagance and profligacy in the parents, who, contrary to the order of nature, subsist by the oppression of their offspring.
Page 122 - December one thousand eight hundred and two, all such mills and factories within Great Britain and Ireland, wherein three or more apprentices or twenty or more other persons shall at any time be employed, shall be subject to the several rules and regulations contained in this Act...
Page 119 - No religious catechism or religious formulary which is distinctive of any particular denomination shall be taught in the school.
Page 58 - That an humble address be presented to her Majesty, praying that her Majesty will be graciously pleased to take into her instant and serious consideration the best means of diffusing the benefits and blessings of a moral and religious education amongst the working classes of her people.
Page 124 - And be it further enacted, that this act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act, and shall be judicially taken notice of as such by all judges, justices, and others, without being specially pleaded.