For a compendium of the values that made Britain great, this recording cannot be highly enough recommended. 10 likes, 0 comments - Dark Oxfordshire (darkoxfordshire) on Instagram: 'The White Horse at Uffington is Oxfordshires most famous chalk hill carving. And all they were taught was Latin and Greek!!) The stalwart Tom is a clear forerunner of other British schoolboy heroes such as Biggles, Jennings, Billy Bunter, his namesake William, and Harry Potter in later years.

(If this is a true account he must go down as one of the most influential Victorians, since Rugbeians would have been truly fitted by his tutelage to build a worldwide Empire. The eternal question of what education is for rings through the recounted episodes, with its highest ideals embodied in the great Dr Arnold. How wrong I was! This was far more satisfying and though-provoking, in part thanks to Hugh Bonneville's sensitive performance (clearly a man with fond recollections of his own schooldays). One can see the impact it had on Wodehouses school stories, as well as 'Goodbye, Mr. First published in 1857, Hughes was looking to write a novel for boys that would tell about the public school life in a right spirit but distinctly aimed at being interesting. 'Tom Browns Schooldays' by Thomas Hughes (1822 - 1896) was originally published in 1857, and clearly inspired other school novels for many years to come. Tom Browns Schooldays by Thomas Hughes (1822 - 1896) was originally published in 1857, and clearly inspired other school novels for many years to come. THOMAS HUGHES CLASSIC AND DIRECTED IN PERFORMANCE AT BRIGHAM. Tom Brown’s Schooldays by Thomas Hughes is one of the first (if not the first) books about boys and adventures in public school life. TOM BROWNS SCHOOLDAYS:AMUSICALADAPTEDFROMTHE. Half remembering the BBC adaptation from the early seventies (" That's dashed decent of you, East!!" became a catchphrase in my house for a time) and the riotous parody by Michael Palin (the school leopard, the maggot pit, the Hop.), I thought I knew what to expect, a ripping yarn of period schoolboy japes. Further reproduction prohibited without permission.

Tom Brown's Schooldays by Thomas Hughes