1. For a recent summary of Thring’s life and work, see Malcolm Tozer, ‘Education for “True Life”: a Review of Thring’s Educational Aims and Methods,’ History of Education Society Bulletin, 39 (1987). pp. 24–31; or Malcolm Tozer, ‘The Great Educational Experiment: Edward Thring’s Innovations at Uppingham School, 1853–1887’, in Simo Seppo, The Social Role and Evolution of the Teaching Profession in Historical Context (Joensuu, 1988) vol. v, pp. 8–17.
2. For his manliness sermons, see Malcolm Tozer, ‘Education in Manliness’, Religion, XVII (1987) pp. 63–80; and Malcolm Tozer ‘“The Readiest
Hand and the Most Open Heart”: Uppingham’s First Missions to the
Poor’History of Education, XVIII (1989) pp. 323–332.
3. Malcolm Tozer ‘“The Readiest Hand and the Most Open Heart”: Uppingham’s First Missions to the Poor’, History of Education, XVIII (1989) pp. 323–332.
4. Hughes later tried to redress the balance: see Malcolm Tozer, ‘Thomas Hughes: “Tom Brown” versus “True Manliness”,’ Physical Education Review, XII (1989) pp. 44–48.
5. For a summary of Almond’s work, see Malcolm Tozer, ‘The Consecration of the Body’, Physical Education Review, VIII (1985) p. 84ff.