Year: | 1785 | |
Short description: | Sunday School society formed | |
Medium description: | "The Society for the Establishment and Support of Sunday Schools in the different Counties of England" established. Instrumental in ensuring that by turn of the century 3/4 million children were attending Sunday Schools (Evans, 1975). Founded committees composed of equal numbers of churchmen and nonconformists but its aims were "religious and social rather than intellectual" (Barnard, 1961). | |
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