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A timely and important assessment of the role private schools now play in public life in Britain . . . Essential reading for anyone interested in the development of education in Britain today. Magnus Linklater, the Times

'A timely and important assessment of the role private schools now play in public life in Britain ... Essential reading for anyone interested in the development of education in Britain today' -- Magnus Linklater, columnist, The Times; 'The best things in education cannot be measured. They can be described though, and Mark Peel has done that well in his account of late twentieth-century schools' -- Sir Eric Anderson, former Head Master and Provost of Eton College; 'A definitive account of the contemporary independent schools, both in their educational context and in the wider psyche of the nation' -- D.R. Thorpe, leading political biographer; 'An apt description and evaluation of the last thirty years within the sector by a man who really knows it from the inside [...] As ever with Peel the book is cogently written and describes its subject with not only sympathy ... but in addition with a cutting assessment of what will be required of it in the future.' - Limping Towards the Sunrise, blog

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Mark Peel attended Harrow School and Edinburgh University before teaching History and Politics at Fettes School in Scotland for more than twenty-five years. Besides contributing to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography he is the author of eight books on cricket, politics and independent schools, one of which, England Expects: A Life of Ken Barrington, won the 1993 Cricket Society Literary Award.

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