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An illustration of Rugby school from the magazine 'The Illustrated London News', 1862. (De Agostini Picture Library/Getty Images)

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The school for girls imprisoned at Tothill Fields in the late 1850s. A dedicated schoolmistress was employed to teach that institution’s large female population; in other prisons, the matron took lessons. (Engraving from Chronicle, via Alamy)

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The Shaftesbury Welcome Ragged School in Battersea , 1899. Classes of 40 were not rare, and they could stretch to 80 during staff shortages. (Photo by Mary Evans)

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(Illustration by Glen McBeth for BBC History Magazine)

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Cicero denounces plot organised by Catiline to take the power, mural painting by Cesare Maccari.

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