Robert Raikes's House, Gloucester
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Robert Raikes's House, Gloucester
Image: © Rudi Winter Taken: 16 Mar 2019
A timber-framed merchant's house with jettied upper floors, built in 1560, now a pub. Robert Raikes ran the newspaper, the Gloucester Journal, and an associated printing house from this building. He was one of the founders of the Sunday School movement, which aimed to provide at least one day of elementary schooling for children who would have had to work on the other days of the week. Within just four years, a quarter of a million of children across England were attending Sunday Schools. While religion featured heavily in the curriculum, the Sunday Schools were non-denominational, although both Methodists and Anglicans later developed their own equivalents. The state only recognised the need to provide universal elementary education when the Education Act 1870 was passed into law.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.86428
Longitude
-2.247412