The History of Borough Road School/College from its Origins in 1798 until its merger with Maria Grey College to form West London Institute of Higher Education in 1976
This book is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 3.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is noncommercial.The historical development of the Borough Road School for the children of poor parents led to the need to train its teachers. This work was the inspiration of Joseph Lancaster. The text is divided into two major sections. The first section deals with the development of his ideas and implementation. The second section examines the historical development of Borough Road College by decade with emphasis on changes in educational ideas and legislation across two centuries
