Genealogy Australia

Brighton College occupies a significant niche in the story of English education. It pioneered the use of small, separate classrooms, set up the first purpose-built science laboratory, erected the first gymnasium and invented the school magazine. Later, it fought the legal battle to obtain charitable tax status for non-profit making organisations. Here the author investigates more than the history of one school. He uses the story to question the identity of the public school system, and just how much has changed in the last 150 years, from the controlled life of the schoolboy of 1955 compared with an almost unlimited freedom in 1855.