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Dear list, esteemed list membership - I need your help! My undergraduate Child and Family Studies students -level 2 - who are currently taking my module Children and Schools, have been so inspired by my efforts to link the Poor Law Reform Act of 1834 and the subsequent Erection of Workhouses with schooling to the general history of State Education in England - that many of them want to focus on this question for their assignments. If you want to see how I have positioned the Workhouse within the general history of state education - then take a look at my web site - from which the students are (hopefully) gaining insight! it is at http://panizzi.shef.ac.uk/med/cathy/intro.html I may be off target here, but I consider that the erection of Workhouses and Asylums and the modernization of the prisons all around this time - the modernization of institutionalisation - is closely related to development of policy around schooling and the debate re national education. The problem is - apart from general surveys of the period - Educational and otherwise (Thompson, for instance) I must admit to not knowing the literature in enough detail to recommend books and articles to the students. So - I wonder if anyone can help out here; and I'd be interested to see what the list thinks of this proposition in general. hopefully - Cathy %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%