J R Honey (1977) Tom Brown’s Universe: the Development of the Victorian Public School, London: Millington

Details how Victorian chaos and dissolution of the Public Schools transformed them into the structure of the schools as we know today. The book explains Old Boy networks, the prefect system, the cult of games, religion and sexual relations in the context of boarding.

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