Publisher's Synopsis
In 1876, Bishop Herbert Vaughan launched a unique educational experiment in Manchester; setting up a Catholic secondary school, which rather than teaching the classics, focused instead upon providing a commercial business education. Over the following years the professors at the College were kept busy with amongst other things, faux openings, an abortive German experiment, an escaped alligator, and a visiting Cardinal from Rome. The experiment was abandoned after sixteen years and was replaced with a traditional classical college.
This combined edition brings together the story of Catholic education in the region from the 1840s, incorporating a revised edition of Volume One, first published in 2014, which chronicles the brief history of the Commercial College, and now for the first time, the recently completed Volume Two, continuing the story up the introduction of the Direct Grant system in the late 1940s.
