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Gärtner, Niko – History of Education, 2014
Late nineteenth-century German-English rivalry changed attitudes in Hamburg. Previously, the once fiercely independent city and its burgeoning mercantile middle class had developed an Anglophilia that justified Hamburg being labelled a "London suburb" and "the most British town on the Continent". The affinity for all things…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational History, Nationalism, Compliance (Psychology)
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Clarke, Richard – History of Education, 2010
"Independent" lecture agencies are a neglected element in the history of education. Between 1918 and 1939, the Selborne Lecture Bureau was a significant national provider of adult education in Britain, both in its own right and as a supplier of lecture(r)s to Women's Institutes and other bodies, and it pioneered the use of films in…
Descriptors: Educational History, Adult Education, Lecture Method, Foreign Countries