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Record Nr.

UNINA9910148657303321

Autore

Ryan Steve

Titolo

The city school : 425 years of Queen Elizabeth's Hospital / / Steve Ryan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, [England] ; ; New York, [New York] : , : Osprey Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-78442-063-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (102 p.)

Disciplina

907.2

Soggetti

Local history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; Elizabeth Gloriana; The City School; The Victorian Era; The War Years; Elizabeth R; The Bluecoat Boys; Further Reading; Imprint

Sommario/riassunto

QEH opened in 1590 in line with the instructions laid down in John Carr's will of 1586. Always known as the City School, it has occupied three sites in and around the centre of Bristol. The current site in Berkeley Place was opened in 1847. In its 425th anniversary year, the school has 570 senior boys and over 100 boys in the Junior School and is rightly marketed as Bristol's Best Boys' School. The founder and the other historic benefactors would be very proud of the school as it exists today, as wherever possible it maintains its charitable traditions whilst at the same time providing a firs