Caring for destitute and delinquent children in Scotland 1812–1872
by
Andrew G. Ralston
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
The book covers the period from 1812, when the Tron Riot in Edinburgh dramatically drew attention to the ‘lamentable extent of juvenile depravity’, up to 1872, when the Education Act (Scotland) inaugurated a system of universal schooling.
During the 1840s and 1850s in particular there was...