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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 February 2017
Historians have tended to view the 1920s and 1930s as a bleak educational interlude before the catalyst of the Second World War and the radical 1944 Education Act. However, fierce and very public battles raged over the funding, facilities, and curriculum of state-aided schools and, indeed, over the ownership of many of them. These battles embraced every aspect of the nation's political, social, and religious life. This article contends that those decades were ones of complex, even dramatic, change with the inter-war period possessing its own dominant values and perceptions of how problems should be met and resolved. While some traditions were considered sacrosanct, others were cast aside. It was not a period of stagnation; indeed, to many the times bordered on the revolutionary.
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