Christopher Bischof received his PhD from Rutgers University and is currently Assistant Professor of History at the University of Richmond. He is a social and cultural historian of modern Britain and the world.

The book, as a whole, does a good job in revealing the complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which teachers' lives, activities, and reflections were intertwined both with the everyday lives of the communities they served and with the wider historical developments working to transform British society in the second half of the nineteenth century, in particular, the expansion of the state into new areas of social and domestic life. Bischof makes a convincing case for viewing some teachers as interstitial negotiators, communicating across social and class boundaries, while, at the same time, helping to remake and reshape those boundaries.

• Introduction Part I: Becoming Teachers 1: Education Policies 2: Pupil Teaching 3: Rules and Rule Breaking 4: 'A Home for Poets'? Part II: Out in the World 5: The Job Market 6: Seeing Britain and the World 7: Everyday Stories 8: The Over-Pressure Controversy Conclusion

Christopher Bischof received his PhD from Rutgers University and is currently Assistant Professor of History at the University of Richmond. He is a social and cultural historian of modern Britain and the world.

The book, as a whole, does a good job in revealing the complex and sometimes contradictory ways in which teachers' lives, activities, and reflections were intertwined both with the everyday lives of the communities they served and with the wider historical developments working to transform British society in the second half of the nineteenth century, in particular, the expansion of the state into new areas of social and domestic life. Bischof makes a convincing case for viewing some teachers as interstitial negotiators, communicating across social and class boundaries, while, at the same time, helping to remake and reshape those boundaries.

• Introduction Part I: Becoming Teachers 1: Education Policies 2: Pupil Teaching 3: Rules and Rule Breaking 4: 'A Home for Poets'? Part II: Out in the World 5: The Job Market 6: Seeing Britain and the World 7: Everyday Stories 8: The Over-Pressure Controversy Conclusion