Schooldays in Harrogate

History Group member Paul Jennings has just published Schools and Schooldays in Nineteenth-century Harrogate. The Civic Society generously contributed to the cost of this.

It is a study of all types of school in the town, including the many private schools for boys and girls that were set up here. It looks at the schools, teachers, pupils, what and how they were taught, the school day and what happened to them after school. It has 70 illustrations. It is accompanied from the 5 May to the end of June by an exhibition at Harrogate Library and four related talks.

It costs just £20 and is available at local bookshops, direct from the publisher Carnegie at https://www.carnegiepublishing.co.uk/ or direct from Paul if you prefer, contact paul.jennings@cantab.net