Examining four major institutions, Michele Strong considers the experiences of working men and women, particularly artisans, but also young apprentices and clerks, who travelled abroad as participants in an educational reform movement spearheaded by middle-class liberals.

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"Strong's intensive use of archival resources offers a significant contribution to understanding the international experiences of

working class travelers from Britain who, through their travels, continued to reassess rapid social and industrial change at home ... in its overall quality of research and writing this monograph should continue to be of interest for scholars of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain interested in international travel as envisioned and experienced by members of the working classes and liberal reformers." - Cercles

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University of South Alabama, USA

Michele M. Strong

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Dr. Michele M. Strong is Associate Professor of History at the University of South Alabama, USA.

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Book Title: Education, Travel and the 'Civilisation' of the Victorian Working Classes
Authors: Michele M. Strong
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137338082
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-33807-5Published: 27 February 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-46393-0Published: 01 January 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-33808-2Published: 23 January 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 243
Topics: History of Britain and Ireland, Social History, History of Education, Sociology of Sport and Leisure, European History, Cultural History

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction: Grand Tours and Workers’ Tours: Rethinking Victorian Travel and Education

“A True Agent of Civilisation”: Travel and the “Educational Idea,” 1841–1861

Turning the Educational Idea on Its Head: The Lib-Lab Alliance and the Organization of the Working Men’s 1867 Exhibition Tours

“The Lessons of Paris”: The 1867 Working Men’s Exhibition Tours and the Artisan Imagination

“High Attainments”: The Artisan Exhibition Tours and the Campaign for Technical Education, 1867–1889

Class Trips and the Meaning of British Citizenship: The Regent Street Polytechnic at Home and Abroad, 1871–1903

Conclusion: Goody, Gordon, and Shilpa Shetty “Poppadom”: The Politics of Study Abroad from the New Liberalism to New Labour

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