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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Bedales
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Britain's oldest co-educational boarding school, in Hampshire. It was founded in 1893 as a boys' boarding school by John Badley (1865–1967), who had previously been a teacher at Abbotsholme in Staffordshire. Abbotsholme, founded in 1889, launched the movement in Britain for progressive education, with its ideal that a school should be a 'community' or 'miniature commonwealth'. Bedales introduced co-educational boarding at the surprisingly early date of 1898; Abbotsholme followed suit in 1969.
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