316 REPORTS ON THE STATE OF SCIENCE. — 1920. 



History for Four Upper Classes. 



The classes will make a survey of the school district and by means of this 

 approach an elementary knowledge of the social and industrial history ui 

 England will be attempted. 

 Introductory Lessons : 



(a) The Scroll of History. 

 (6) The Centuries, 

 (c) Leading Dates. 

 The Britons : 



Local Items. — Lambeth before the Houses. Boadicea's statue. 

 The Eomans : 



The Old Kent Road. The Roman Boat found when digging the County Hall 

 foundations. Stangate. The Roman Bath in the Strand. 

 The Land : 



Local notice-boards advertising sites for sale. Local examples of Freehold, 

 Copyhold, and Leasehold. Local entries in Domesday Book. The 

 increased value of Pedlar's Acre (site of County Hall). Notice summon- 

 ing General Court Baron for the Manor of Kenniugton. Enclosure of 

 Lambeth Green. 

 The Growth of Towns : 



The 1593, 1750, 1797, 1820, and 1870 maps of Lambeth. Old views of 

 Lambeth. 

 The Growth of Industries : 



The present and past industries of Lambeth. Survey of local trade unions 

 and friendly societies. 

 What we owe to Foreigners : 



The introduction of glass- and pottery-making into Lambeth (Venetians 

 and Dutch). 

 The Evolution of the Means of Travelling : 



Survey of Lambeth's means of communication. The railways, tubes, 

 trams, 'buses, taxi-cabs, motors, &c. The Brighton Road via Kennington 

 Gate. The old inns. 

 The Punishment of Crime : 



The police-station. Lambeth Police Court. The Old Watch-house in High 

 Street. The old Surrey Gallows at Kennington. 

 The Religious Life of the People : 



Survey of the various local churches and chapels, &c. Lambeth Palace. 

 Bunyan's Hall. 

 The Growth of Education : 



Survey of local schools, evening institutes, polytechnics, colleges, &c. 

 Lambeth parochial school (Archbishop Temple's). The Tradescants and 

 Elias Ashmole. 



