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Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. South Derbyshire, United Kingdom 'Overseal Manor Reconsidered Discipline, Memory and Accountability' is a meticulously researched historical study of a little-examined residential special school in Derbyshire, tracing its transformation from a nineteenth-century country house into a twentieth-century institution for vulnerable children. Drawing on archival records, official documentation, electoral registers, contemporary reports, and later criminal proceedings, the book looks at who built of Overseal Manor and the buisness owner and senior engineer who called it there home. Then the book reconstructs the full institutional life of Overseal Manor School from its origins to its closure in 1997. It examines how educational policy, architectural form, staffing structures, and weak oversight combined to create an environment in which authority was concentrated and accountability was often absent. Rather than focusing solely on individual allegations or courtroom outcomes, this study situates them within a longer historical framework. It explores daily life inside the school, disciplinary culture, the role of on-site headmasters, and the gradual emergence of a culture of silence that delayed scrutiny for decades. Legal proceedings arising many years later are reported carefully and in context, with clear distinction between allegation, evidence, and judicial outcome. This book is not a memoir or a polemic. It is a documentary reconstruction that seeks to understand how institutional failure can develop, persist, and remain unchallenged within systems designed to provide care. By placing Overseal Manor School within the wider history of post-war residential education and child welfare, it offers an important contribution to the study of institutional power, vulnerability, and historical accountability. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781291733990
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Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. South Derbyshire, United Kingdom 'Overseal Manor Reconsidered Discipline, Memory and Accountability' is a meticulously researched historical study of a little-examined residential special school in Derbyshire, tracing its transformation from a nineteenth-century country house into a twentieth-century institution for vulnerable children. Drawing on archival records, official documentation, electoral registers, contemporary reports, and later criminal proceedings, the book looks at who built of Overseal Manor and the buisness owner and senior engineer who called it there home. Then the book reconstructs the full institutional life of Overseal Manor School from its origins to its closure in 1997. It examines how educational policy, architectural form, staffing structures, and weak oversight combined to create an environment in which authority was concentrated and accountability was often absent. Rather than focusing solely on individual allegations or courtroom outcomes, this study situates them within a longer historical framework. It explores daily life inside the school, disciplinary culture, the role of on-site headmasters, and the gradual emergence of a culture of silence that delayed scrutiny for decades. Legal proceedings arising many years later are reported carefully and in context, with clear distinction between allegation, evidence, and judicial outcome. This book is not a memoir or a polemic. It is a documentary reconstruction that seeks to understand how institutional failure can develop, persist, and remain unchallenged within systems designed to provide care. By placing Overseal Manor School within the wider history of post-war residential education and child welfare, it offers an important contribution to the study of institutional power, vulnerability, and historical accountability. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781291733990
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Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. South Derbyshire, United Kingdom 'Overseal Manor Reconsidered Discipline, Memory and Accountability' is a meticulously researched historical study of a little-examined residential special school in Derbyshire, tracing its transformation from a nineteenth-century country house into a twentieth-century institution for vulnerable children. Drawing on archival records, official documentation, electoral registers, contemporary reports, and later criminal proceedings, the book looks at who built of Overseal Manor and the buisness owner and senior engineer who called it there home. Then the book reconstructs the full institutional life of Overseal Manor School from its origins to its closure in 1997. It examines how educational policy, architectural form, staffing structures, and weak oversight combined to create an environment in which authority was concentrated and accountability was often absent. Rather than focusing solely on individual allegations or courtroom outcomes, this study situates them within a longer historical framework. It explores daily life inside the school, disciplinary culture, the role of on-site headmasters, and the gradual emergence of a culture of silence that delayed scrutiny for decades. Legal proceedings arising many years later are reported carefully and in context, with clear distinction between allegation, evidence, and judicial outcome. This book is not a memoir or a polemic. It is a documentary reconstruction that seeks to understand how institutional failure can develop, persist, and remain unchallenged within systems designed to provide care. By placing Overseal Manor School within the wider history of post-war residential education and child welfare, it offers an important contribution to the study of institutional power, vulnerability, and historical accountability. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781291733990
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