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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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Christ's Hospital
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Independent school for boys and girls, founded by Edward VI in 1552 for the education of poor London children. It was established in buildings in Newgate Street which had belonged to the *Franciscans, or Greyfriars. During the 18C the girls were moved to Hertford, and in 1902 the boys' school transferred to its present site at Horsham in West Sussex; here the girls rejoined them in 1985, reuniting the school in its original form after more than two centuries.
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The boys still wear the traditional *blue-coat uniform of charity children, with yellow stockings under their long blue robes, but the girls now have a newly designed blue dress (old pupils of both sexes are known as Old Blues). Christ's Hospital had a distinguished literary period in the late 18C, when its pupils included Coleridge and Lamb.
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