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2 unusual facts about Arthur Francis Leach


Arthur Francis Leach

A modern scholar has said that his The Schools of Medieval England published in 1915, the year of his death, "formed the basis for all subsequent work on medieval and Reformation schooling until the publication of Nicholas Orme.s English Schools in the Middle Ages in 1973".

Leach's main theses were that English schools had much greater antiquity than had been thought, and that the Tudors had not been the great patrons of English education.



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