LEADER 03941nam 22005652 450 001 9910782256003321 005 20151002020706.0 010 $a1-84631-298-1 035 $a(CKB)1000000000541150 035 $a(EBL)380625 035 $a(OCoLC)437241521 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000141181 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11157826 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000141181 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10090476 035 $a(PQKB)11590832 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781846312984 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC380625 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL380625 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10369579 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000541150 100 $a20111001d1999|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aDr. Macnamara, 1861-1931 /$fRobin Betts$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d1999. 215 $a1 online resource (414 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-85323-863-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [399]-407) and index. 327 $aTitle Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1: Apprenticeship in Education; 2: The Board School Teacher, 1882-1892; 3: The Schoolmaster; 4: The London School Board, 1894-1897; 5: President of the NUT; 6: The London School Board, 1897-1900; 7: Parliament, 1900-1902; 8: The Education Act, 1902; 9: The End of the London School Board; 10: The Decline of the Unionist Government, 1903-1905; 11: Outside and Inside the Government, 1905-1908; 12: Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, 1908-1914; 13: Financial Secretary to the Admiralty, 1914-1920; 14: Minister of Labour 327 $a15: ExclusionNotes; Bibliography; Index 330 $aThis well-researched historical biography is the first on Dr T. J. Macnamara, the first ex-elementary teacher to win a government post. Colleague and close friend of Lloyd George, and praised by Winston Churchill, Macnamara was an educationist, journalist and Cabinet Minister. This study of his life and career makes a major contribution to educational history as well as to the history of the Liberal Party, the National Union of Teachers (NUT) and British political history generally. Fascinating details of Macnamara’s pre-Parliamentary career are provided and, alongside the biographical account, the book deals with a range of major issues with which Macnamara was involved. In education, government control of school funding and the curriculum in the 1890s is considered together with the emergence of elementary school teachers as powerful public figures, the operation and decline of London’s first education system (the London School Board 1870–1904), and resistance (especially in Wales) to Balfour’s 1902 Education Act. Defence issues feature: a view of the First World War arms race from inside the Admiralty; the Admiralty during the First World War from the standpoint of the only government minister who held the same office throughout the hostilities, working with, among others, Churchill and Balfour. Macnamara’s establishment of the dole on response to the post-war economic slump, 1920–22, is also considered. Important analysis is included of the fragmentation of the Liberal Party in the 1920s, leaving Macnamara as one of the last of Lloyd George’s supporters. 606 $aPoliticians$zGreat Britain$vBiography 606 $aTeachers$zGreat Britain$vBiography 607 $aGreat Britain$xPolitics and government$y1901-1936 615 0$aPoliticians 615 0$aTeachers 676 $a941.082/092 676 $aB 700 $aBetts$b Robin$01484554 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910782256003321 996 $aDr. Macnamara, 1861-1931$93703251 997 $aUNINA