William E. Marsden is Emeritus Professor of Education at the University of Liverpool. His publications include Unequal Educational Provision in England and Wales (1987); Educating the Respectable; A Study of Fleet Road Board School, 1879-1903 (1991); (editor, with R.K. Goodenow), The City and Education in Four Nations (1992); (edited with J. Hughes) Primary School Geography (1994); Geography 11-16 Rekindling Good Practice (1995); and An Anglo-Welsh Dynasty; The Adams Family from the 1840s to the 1930s (1997) among other titles.

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