“…Recently, there appears to be a renewed interest in the subject (Dixon, 2019;Iwashita, 2018;Turner, 2019, Williams, 2020, but there is scope for more revisionist interpretations, not least in light of developments wider scholarship on the wider aspects of nineteenth society, which points to the critical influence of the vying forms of Christianity over British identity and trajectories of development over all aspects of cultural and political life (Saunders, 2014) including the histories of childhood and education, nationally and across the Anglo-world (Bennett, 2019;Burton and Baxter, 2018;Jackson, 2020).…”