Author:
Joseph Lancaster (1778-1838), pioneering Quaker educationalist who advocated the monitorial system
Publication details:
‘Free School, Borough Road, Southwark. / 19th of 3d Month, 1806.’
A scarce and fragile item: the only copy traced on WorldCat and Jisc is held by the Society Friends (Quakers). Lancaster’s entry in the Oxford DNB, which sums up his achievements: ‘his name was to survive in English educational history as one of the foremost pioneers of mass schooling and effective teacher training in the early industrial era’. The handbill is printed on one side of a 15 x 19.5 cm leaf of thin wove paper. A fragile survival: lightly aged and worn, with a small hole and closed tear, but text clear and entire.
