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This is the second in a series of blog posts about York St John’s male students through history. The first post, ‘Discipline and Defiance’ focused on the 19th and early 20th century, when students were subject to strict rules, while
YSJ Men – An Archive Display Part 1: Discipline and Defiance
Following my International Women’s Day post on our female students last year, I thought I’d write next about the contrasting experience of the male students. From the original founding of the York Diocesan Training College in the 1840s, men and
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